Another one that's in the incipient stage but which I suspect will be filling newsprint across the globe. Scientist types have taken all sorts of artistic images of Cleopatra and used them as the basis for creating an image of what Cleopatra really looked like. Seems reasonable ... an attractive woman of mixed ethnicity. The Daily Mail has the best photos at the time of this writing:

Sorry Liz, but THIS is the real face of Cleopatra (Daily Mail)

Cleopatra's first true image recreated (Times of India)

Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra 'nowhere near reality' (Telegraph)

First Accurate Depiction of Cleopatra Created? (Chattahbox)


You'll want to check out Rick Darby's post on this:

Why, Cleopatra, I hardly recognized you