On This Day August 12

Cleopatra, the ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt committed suicide in Alexandra on August 12, 30 BC by inducing an Egyptian cobra to bite her after her lover Mark Antony had killed himself. (Dying of snakebite Egyptians believed conferred immorality.) Cleopatra's death ended the line of all Egyptian pharaohs as Egypt became a Roman province.

The Death of Cleopatra (1796–1797), by Jean-Baptiste Regnault

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