But Hanna told CBS News the facts from more than 2,000 years ago were less clear. "We do not know for sure whether Cleopatra was Black or White or even red, and we don't even know if she thought ...

So basically, when we talk about Black and white in antiquity, we're mostly talking about gender distinctions, not what we would call race today. So that's really one of the primary differences.

The Egyptian antiquities ministry went so far as to issue a statement: Cleopatra, it said, was light-skinned, not ... ultimately, the question of whether or not you are black or white will, ...

His use of “light-skinned” as the antithesis of Black is rich because Greeks identify as white. Zahi’s anti-Black rhetoric and the erasure of data that proves that Black Egyptians are a ...

The Egyptian government's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has responded to Netflix's documentary casting controversy, claiming that Cleopatra had "white skin." ...

“When we say, in general, that the ancient Egyptians were Black and, more specifically, that Cleopatra was Black,” Dr. Haley wrote, “we claim them as part of a culture and history that has ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the Eurasian continent.

So basically, when we talk about Black and white in antiquity, we're mostly talking about gender distinctions, not what we would call race today. So that's really one of the primary differences.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Rebecca Futo Kennedy, associate professor at Denison University, about the flak surrounding the Netflix docudrama Queen Cleopatra, which depicts her as Black.