Cléopâtre l'Égyptienne. Photographie AUBER DE LAPIERRE)

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allows us to compare the Dakhla ceramics with the material from the major regions of Egypt

which stretch from southern Syria across north-eastern Jordan and reach the sand sea of the Nefud in Saudi Arabia

presented in the book

After having run around the tobacconists of the twentieth arrondissement (Tabacs d'Orient)

Cléopâtre l'Égyptienne. Photographie AUBER DE LAPIERRE)The story of Cleopatra VII, Greek queen and female pharaoh, has been based primarily, since Antiquity, on literary sources that present her in a negative light, as an "Egyptian," which devalued her both as a "barbarian" and as a woman. This ideological discourse, which reproduced the propaganda of the victor, Octavian Augustus, must be compared with historical documents from Cleopatra's Egypt: papyri, inscriptions, archaeological and iconographic