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Cleopatra

Cleopatra is often mistakenly believed to have died by suicide using two aspic snakes. Plutarch recounts in the life of Mark Antony that no one truly knows how she died. Some claim she used a poison she applied to her hair, and no aspic snakes were found at the site of her death. Instead, two … Read more