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When even the officially elite-appointed and answerable moral guardians think this is a piece of shit :P

Nothing particularly big, according to her wiki. Apparently, she's also a whale activist, which is a whole lot more respectable than your typical SJW these days. I can certainly get behind environmentalism without feeling the urge to vomit like I would whenever I look in the mirror should I...

I prefer the 1999 TV series starring Leonor Varela, since it was the one I watched as a kid.

Considering what their ancestors were capable of, I'm not surprised.

I need to find time to watch this.

As it deserves. Western colonialism was bad, period, and the reviving Eurocentrism of the post-Cold War world order is just as bad, but that doesn't justify Afrocentrism in response.

Don't call him that. IIRC, he hated that name, since it basically meant Julius Caesar VIII, which is why he always went by Augustus after the Senate made him princeps. He was finally his own man, and out of his uncle's (and his ancestors') shadow. Yeah, Augustus had his issues. That said...

We need more people like Dr. Hawass, willing to stand up to the left-wing mob for what's right and just.

Not to mention insisting on hiring mercenaries instead of training citizen-soldiers. Sure, the former tend to be more experienced than the latter, but once you burn through them, they're not as easy to replace. That was always Rome's biggest advantage during the Punic Wars. Whenever they lost...

Hey, Carthage was awesome. The Ancient Greeks simply refused to challenge Carthage's naval might (and considering how full of themselves the Greeks were, that's saying something), and while Rome did, that it took three wars over a century's worth of time to bring Carthage down speaks to its...

Pretty sure the Carthaginians were Phoeniceans, so they were proto-Syrians and less North African.

It certainly didn't help that Augustus had managed to filch Marcus Antonius' will from the Vestal Virgins. A huge scandal that would have been, and a massive gamble for Augustus that paid off. No thanks to Marcus Antonius being so stupid as to outright will all of Rome's eastern provinces as...

That's because in their world view, Hispanics are white, and - speaking from personal experience here - Asians are a model minority. Apparently, we reinforce racism by preferring to study hard and work hard, you know, actually earn advancement instead of just whining about how shitty life is...

*shrugs* At the risk of being called a callous and uncaring bitch, that's pretty much par the course for politics right up until the modern era. I can hardly blame Augustus for doing what he needed to do to secure his power, and he certainly used his power much better than Cleopatra used hers.

Dunno about that, but I do know that the traditional Iranian religion, Zoroastrianism, is still alive and well today. Them or the Israelis (or the Amis), but that's neither here nor there. Cleopatra gained romantic appeal thanks to Shakespeare. That, and she figured in the legacy of...

And they do today, as they did thousands of years ago, based on genetic studies done on mummified bodies. True, but they also aggressively and repeatedly invaded Nubia. History has white bias, you know how the party line goes. Seriously, if they wanted genuinely-strong feminine rulers in...

Genetically, Egyptians then and now aren't purely African. They've always been a mix, because surprise, surprise, Egypt is a crossroads for travel and trade. In fact, Ancient Egyptians looked down on Africans, and had more in common with their rivals to the east like Babylon and Assyria than...

More iconic...? Sure...iconic in the sense that her reign was a fucking comedy. I mean, seducing Caesar was a good idea, in theory. In practice, Cleopatra undermined him seeing as it contributed to the Roman perception of Caesar's royal ambitions. Then there was the bright idea (re: sarcasm)...