Small coin opened truth about Cleopatra

Cleopatra was entirely not the most great beauty, as legends assure, yes even Antonius pisanym krasavtsem also hardly they would name.

A study of ancient silver coin, whose age counts more than 2.000 years, shows that the Egyptian tsarina, whose means personified in the cinema that not compared Elisabeth Taylor, in reality had sharp chin, thin lips and sharply outlined nose.

In its Roman beloved (in the film, if you remember, it it plays Richard Burton) were convex eyes, thick neck and nose hook.

Small coins were studied by experts from the university of Newcastle. From one side to them is coined the profile of general the stamp of Antonius, on another - Cleopatra. The size of coin does not exceed the contemporary British of fivees-pennyvetch. The artifact, dated by 32 years B.C., find in the collection, which belongs to the antiquarian society of Newcastle.

The director of the archaelogical museum of university, Lindsi Of ellason - Jones notes: "means on the coin are distant from Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Barton. Roman writers reported, that Cleopatra was clever and to charming, that had the enticing voice, but in this case not one of the contemporaries nothing he speaks about its beauty. The means of Cleopatra as excellent temptress - this is the fantasy much of the later authors ".