Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse

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The Landing of Cleopatra in Tarsus by Claude Lorraine


01 – Preface, The Valley of the Nile

02 – The Ptolemies

03 – Alexandria

04 – Cleopatra’s Father

05 – Accession to the Throne

Cleopatra Jean Thomassen, left side of an Egyptian triptych
Cleopatra Jean Thomassen, left side of an Egyptian triptych

06 – Cleopatra and Caesar

07 – The Alexandrine War

08 – Cleopatra a Queen

09 – The Battle of Philippi

10 – Cleopatra and Antony

Anthony and Cleopatra by Lawrence Alma Tadema

11 – The Battle of Actium

12 – The End of Cleopatra

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie

The Pyramids at Giza, photo by Ricardo Liberato, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license

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Luxor Thebes Upper Egypt by David Roberts

01 – A Land of Old Renown

02 – A Day in Thebes

03 – A Day in Thebes, Continued

04 – Pharaoh at Home

Moses and Aaron before Pharoah

05 – The Life of a Soldier
06 – Child-life in Ancient Egypt

07 – Some Fairy-tales of Long Ago

08 – Some Fairy-tales of Long Ago, Continued

09 – Exploring the Soudan

10 – A Voyage of Discovery

Egyptian hieroglyphs Louvre, image source Guillaume Blanchard, GNU Free Documentation license

11 – Egyptian Books

12 – Temples and Tombs

13 – An Egyptian’s Heaven