Cleopatra and Ptolemies - The Greek Rulers of Egypt 

People thought africa means land of black people or black continet well it is not The word africa was given by the romans to berber and the berber during that time was white not black

Even real ethnic Egyptians weren’t black.

​@@scarymonster5541 if you want to see the ancestors of north Africa, look at the amazingh people, they are mostly white passing.

@@newtonia-uo4889 well yes i know that

aFRICA IS natively black! This is a fact, yes rulers, invaders land looters eg romans and currently france, uk can place their rulers there but it was mainly black native.s

My US friends say Cleopatra should look like Kate Beckinsale, Erlizabeth Taylor... Or Michelle Obama, Nicky Minaj... And always get very angry.

They could've done more effort with her hair.

Yes! Unlike Cleopatra, it’s been documented that Arsinoe was considered a stunning beauty during her lifetime.

@@sunrisings292 Those that ruled in North Africa at the time were Europeans.

@@billie6528 Cleopatra was beautiful hence why she was desired by several men.

Keep in mind the Ptolemies were not Egyptian. They were Macedonian. So unsure how you say it's an honour, as they don't look like you.

@@ptolemyglenn79 - How do you know what I look like? You are wrong about everything you say. I am proud to be part Egyptian. You sound jealous and mean. It is an honor to be part Egyptian. it is a great thing. Don't be so jealous. Go find out what you are and leave us Egyptians alone with our pride of ancestry.

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@@ptolemyglenn79 Keep in mind that you are not Ptolemy. You might be psychotic if you think you are Ptolemy. Here is some information about him. Ptolemy, Latin in full Claudius Ptolemaeus, (born c. 100 CE-died c. 170 CE), an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who flourished in Alexandria during the 2nd century CE. In several fields his writings represent the culminating achievement of Greco-Roman science, particularly his geocentric (Earth-centred) model of the universe now known as the Ptolemaic system. Virtually nothing is known about Ptolemy’s life except what can be inferred from his writings. His first major astronomical work, the Almagest, was completed about 150 CE and contains reports of astronomical observations that Ptolemy had made over the preceding quarter of a century. The size and content of his subsequent literary production suggests that he lived until about 170 CE.

Arsenoe best waifu

Wow! Like your phrase about Cleo, " I'm HOT and the Romans know that".

Imagine if they did Athena!.......hold my demi god.......lol

They had beer too

@@sutekh-9864 yes but it tasted very different and mead made from honey tasted like white wine....YUCK! Unless you're expecting wine....then maybe yummy lol.😉

Beware cleopatra vii seductive eyes . Octavian is my fictive brother . Beautiful on coins? she is Not. On busts not very pretty. The dead is more beautiful than the living they say. But I am wiser than Mark Anthony and Julius caesar when it comes to cleo, and women in general. I side with you on this point, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

well....eeeps no, Elizabeth Taylor is better XDD

@@barbarablue2571 That's your opinion.

Venus de Milo, which was created by Greeks around 100 BC has a similar look, so the standards of beauty especially among southern Europeans in that period favored larger or more aquiline noses.

@@Crunkboy415 Yeah not small ones like in Medieval society.

They didn't know history at all. Probably they didn't hear about Alexander the Great and his conquests 🤦🏻‍♀️

@@oriraykai3610 Cleopatra was of Greek origin and was a ruler in a Hellenistic state! But what's more - before Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, the original people of Egypt, including the rulers weren't black either (they weren't white too, in modern day Egypt their descendants are Copts). I don't think it's ok to say stupid things like "black Cleopatra" and get away with it... It is just a mixture of ignorance with very bad, malevolent political agenda.

@@marta9127 as a person studying the history of the world, i find almost unbearable when people claim the cleopatra was black, like no go learn about alexander and his conquest

because the software uses faces of people today to generate closest looking face. It's not really how she looked but close. Btw I've lived across the world and I've seen those faces everywhere starting from where I was born to where I live now.

And in Bucharest for that matter

@None ofyobizness Vasilisa Kleopatra was Serbian origin. Like all pharaoh. Vasijije Serbian male name. Vasil-Russian. Russian's are Serbs. State established by Vikings also Serbs. Serbs understan Russians very well. Ras is old par in Serbia. Aleksandria in Egypt was build by Aleksandar Karanovic (makedonski-geographyc ) Serb origin also. Spartan army leader. One more thing Roman empire was Serbian, all eperors Serbs.

@@insider2546 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣Are you serious???Stop humiliating serbs.They are decent and serious people.Stop writing nonsense.

@@insider2546 whatever you say, ha

I believe the intent is to make the reconstructions accessible to modern eyes--- surprisingly accessible. Most ancient hairstyles are grossly artificial and contrived--- distracting from the real person. Ancient coifs were also often merely wigs. In any event, even ancient women had to let their hair down sometimes. These reconstructions are therefore intimate portraits.

Yeah, they should add the historic apparel at that time & don’t forget the headdress too

And the make up eyes

They should maintain the original hairstyles

@@poonamkhaitan4192 mmm yes, to get like a real visual of what it really looked like.

Do you think inmediate incest create mutants? Silbings having children its not really different from mating with someone from your own ethnicy. Incest really starts affecting a lineage if practiced more than twice in a row, and most of that bad effects must not be physically visible, most likely mental illness or organ problems.

@@bryangracida they practiced it for generations upon generations the entire line is inbred

@@ezzaddin5588ever heard about pharaoh Akhenaten , not of ptolemaic blood yet a weirdo . Incest gave him a female body and an alien long head. Cleo, selena and arsonie are lucky.

@@ezzaddin5588 visibly deformed children would have been disposed of. Many societies practiced royal incest including Hawaiians, Incas, Aztecs, as a way of keeping bloodlines pure. They simply discarded any children that were deformed or mentally defective.

@@patrickjohnson1808 He was also of European decent though. Very strange looking fellow, indeed.

ah ah , eyes, the only one element that we have no trace

It is just a supposition how they looked in the past

Cleopatra reminds me of Jane Seymour the actress.

I agree! Cleopatra looks like she could hold her own in Roman power-politics.

Noted!

Pst...Just hit the "pause" icon. Back at ya.

@@gathasofpersia6432 of course we can hit the pause button but come on i'm sure when you make a video you don't say to yourself : "ok at this point the viewers will hit pause and read..."

@@GM-db4bv Precisely 👍👍👍

Press "pause"

Me too,am so proud of him ,his work is really amazing. Excellent job! Bravo!👏👏

So you're a descendant of Ancient Greeks colons. Cleopatra was a Macedonian.

Now Cleopatra is called macedonian and someone dares admire this betrayal of history everybody knows she was a descendant of the greek Ptolemeos it is useless to comment anything anymore as obviously we face people who are unaware of historical knowledge

​@@zazazazizizi6276 ancient macedonians were greeks not slavs

@@zazazazizizi6276 Macedonians were Greeks

@@zazazazizizi6276 But since she was greek(!) macedonian and not slavic macedonian, calling her greek is technically correct.

Women can have larger noses and still look beautiful. I think we in the modern world oversize such noses to the point of ugly which is more about shape than actual size.

A genius? I would not go that far

@@FREE_WILL_DEFENDER Yes, exactly how was she a genius? She was certainly an intelligent, educated woman. She survived a civil war and managed to keep her throne among Roman power politics for 20+ years--so she was a survivor. But the Egypt she ruled over was effectively a Roman client state.

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Americans think Africa = black

Her name is Macedonian,she was Macedonian

@@kostadinpanov4596 which is even more european then greece

because people watched netflix and thought she was dark.. but people dont know history anymore. She was a part of the Ptolemaic dynasty and that name alone will make mouth breathers tune out. I talked to some fans of the docu in person and they had no idea Greece even ruled Egypt.

@@deejay7339 Macedonia ruled Egypt,not Greece,replacing the name Macedonia with the name Greece is simply incorrect.

They put modern make-up on the women.

The attempt wasn't to beautify but hide their true complexions of said region in "ancient" times...

@@cherylscott6040 I suggest don't. Keep it real.

MSN The ladies are gorgeous and if anything the "makeup" is very natural whereas Egyptian royalty wore very elaborate eye makeup

@@cherylscott6040 Why does every video about Ancient Egypt have tonnes of you people in the comments? Stop stealing North African history, and get your own.

I met her real reincarnation in France during the 90s, she was a gypsy woman named Michelle. Her personality was exactly than your description here.

@@FromAgen What

@@FromAgen bruh

@@KayPeaz97 This is a long story.

@NUMBER ELEVEN Historians say she was white of Macedonian decent. Her grandfather was Alexander the Great. She had a Greek heritage with the last name of Ptolemy.

People would live shorter.

I tried it at 1/2 and it was still too fast. 1/4 was good.

Indeed and it s too bad really

It's actually nice to not have to FF through slow ass text that I could read 15 times before it changed.

Indeed a picture says a thousand words

No kidding...

all are anglicized faces

@@MalteseKat I disagree because the reconstructions tend to be closer to the ancient busts and indeed gives them life . Some imagination on the part of the artist is still needed however, eg for the color of the eyes. I think the artist is also following facial descriptions from the primary literature as well, and he has combined them with sculptural busts. Hence in my visual opinion they do look more Greco- Roman and of the era to which they belong; than looking anglican. Also, from the literary sources and the numerous busts and frescos we do have from that material culture ,we sure do have a very good idea of how the ancient greeks and Romans looked.The artist is doing is best and at most times he is uncannily on point.

Arsinoi was beuatifull

@@MalteseKat Yes, well, the ancients seemed to be fairer and closer in appearance to people of Northern Europe than modern Mediterranean people. Remember, the modern populations are the result of those ancients plus a lot of invasions from other peoples. Most recently, the Ottoman Empire!

@@jonathancummings6400 Not really. The Ottoman invasion genes thing is highly exaggerated.

@Ed Ducate Are you on something? What you said made no sense whatsoever.

@Ed Ducate The records we have are Roman written. The Romans hated Cleo, they love Arsenoe. Arsenoe was a real live warrior princess.

@Ed Ducate She was probably not conventionally Beautiful. Though she had charisma and sex appeal. Also Greek women today really don't look like her. She also had Hellenize Syrian in her as well.

But they're still here at this time,?

Cleopatra wasn’t actually Egyptian, but from Greek descendant !!! So that’s pretty cool 😁

@@Disijdc yeap I know ! 😁

That's horrible to say given Cleopatra had a face like a horse

@@kikichalkia not if they human resemble a horse and I'm sure that is not the case with your sister

Cleopatra was epgyptian

WE WAZ THE KAING AND KWEEN OVDA ANCIANTE WORLD

@@MrViki60 Not for your spelling. 😬

​@@itsallgood4093 I'm white and racist, and that was a funni joke mocking basketball-americans.

@@MrViki60 and mine was a joke mocking you. 😂

I agree the depictions are really great & very interesting. Historical figures we all learnt about are now humanised in your great work. But I also agree please slow down the titles. They go by too fast & you have to keep going back when reading them. Thank you

use the pause button like i do.

@NUMBER ELEVEN in between - greek

Greek is not INBETWEEN 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😅lol!! It's Caucasian!!

@NUMBER ELEVEN Cleopatra was from Ptolemy dynasty. She was Greek which means she was white.

@NUMBER ELEVEN That's goood question mate.

@NUMBER ELEVEN it comes from some crazy nationalist theories, black nationalism this time.

Thx mate 😊

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks so much 😊