Was Cleopatra Bitten by her Asp or by Richard Burton? Should we Care?............
“A recent German study ruled out the classical story that last Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra the seventh died of a snake bite and found it more likely the queen committed suicide with a lethal drug cocktail. German historian Christoph Schäfer and other experts travelled to Alexandria, where they consulted ancient medical texts and met with cobra experts. Death by a cobra bite, experts argue, could take days and causes a disfigurement of the body particularly through the appearance of spots. Schäfer, who is also professor at the University of Trier, finds it unlikely Cleopatra had chosen to suffer such a long and painful death besides the fact that she must have wanted to die beautiful in order to make her myth eternal………….”
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