Did female Egyptian pharaoh rule before Cleopatra?

Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 11:02 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new study into a unique Egyptian crown.

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