Slightly outside this blog's usual remit, but before I vanished on holiday the Daily Mail, as well as some newspapers, ran various stories about the so-called real Cleopatra prompted by an upcoming Channel 5 documentary.
The debate about the colour of everyone's favourite Egyptian queen has been an irritant for too many years now and says much about current obsessions in, and the nature of funding in US universities. See for example this nonsense from a professor at DePaul university.
I had intended to write something as the argument irritates me beyond belief. No need. The debate is elegantly, but comprehensively demolished by Dorothy King at PhDiva.
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