In ancient Egypt, there has always been an unsolved mystery, that is, the mystery of the death of Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The "Cleopatra" that everyone is familiar with is the last pharaoh of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra. So how did the queen, who conquered Julius Caesar with charm, die mysteriously?
Not only beautiful but also excellent thinking and knowledge
Literary giants such as Dante and Shakespeare described this legendary woman as "the sexy woman of the world". In later accounts, this Egyptian beauty, with his overwhelming posture, not only temporarily saved a dynasty, but also caused the kings of the powerful Roman Empire to fall under his pomegranate skirt.
Think of Caesar at that time in her fifties, can be described as countless women, but seeing Cleopatra or immediately fell into the love network, and single-handedly lifted her to the top of the Egyptian dynasty, it can be seen that the "Queen" is worthy of the name. However, a British scholar found that the reason why Julius Caesar and Antony fell under her pomegranate skirt was not directly related to Cleopatra's posture. In the eyes of medieval Arab scholars, "Cleopatra" did not rely on beauty, but conquered people's hearts with excellent ideas and knowledge.
Cleopatra speaks 5 languages, and her court is actually a meeting place for intellectuals. She was a highly respected university scholar in the Arab world, with an understanding of alchemy, philosophy, and mathematics and urban planning. She is intelligent, witty, charming, and she has amazing perseverance. Fluent in many languages, her first language was Greek, but she also spoke Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic and Egyptian.
During cleopatra's reign, the famous "Great Fire of the Library of Alexandria" occurred, and the world's premier library was destroyed. The manuscripts of Aristotle and Plato are estimated to be among them, and there is a room full of Homer's works, and the precious early manuscripts of the Old Testament were lost in the fire. As a science-obsessed "Cleopatra", Cleopatra's grief is not difficult to imagine. Fortunately, she finally recovered 200,000 manuscripts.
Legend has it that he committed suicide by eating the chest of a poisonous snake
According to legend, Octavian of the Roman Empire led an army to defeat Antony, forcing Antony and Cleopatra to commit suicide and taking Egypt for themselves. Cleopatra was imprisoned by Octavian in a mausoleum next to the palace, and at the last moment, Cleopatra seduced Octavian, but Octavian was unmoved.
So she ordered someone to smuggle into a deadly viper horned viper (a snake famous in pharaonic times) and ask the guards to hand over a suicide note to Octavian, who had imprisoned her. Yanhou then locked herself in the mausoleum, first eating herself with a poisonous snake, and then two maids were also bitten by the poisonous snake. When she was discovered, Yanhou was dead, and the maid was dying by the bedside. Snake bite marks were found on Cleopatra's arm, but there was no trace of a venomous snake when he looked around.
However, Cleopatra's snake-eating theory may be a mythological explanation for her death. Because the world of the ancient Egyptians was dominated by gods, for 3,000 years, the kings were worshipped by the Egyptian people as gods, and they also regarded themselves as gods. When Cleopatra ascended the throne as pharaoh, she became not only the queen of the country, but also the living incarnation of the serpent-like god Isis.
As for the death of Yan Hou, the act of suicide has been confused by historians. Due to insufficient evidence, her death is also mysterious and bizarre, which makes posterity argue endlessly.
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