Cleopatra - The Last Laugh of the Pharoahs

From the back of the video:
Her legend will never die. She is said to have been a breathtaking beauty, a spell-weaving witch, a sophisticated politician - or simply a whore? Cleopatra: She moulded the mightiest of men of Rome, Caesar and Mark Anthony, like putty in her hands, to fulfil her dream of a Romano-Egyptian Pharaonic empire. But what is the truth? Was Ceasar really the father of her son? Was Cleopatra truly the power that shaped the history of Egypt and Rome? How did this most expert practitioner of feminine wiles actually die? And where does her grave lie today?
There are many secrets and riddles surrounding Cleopatra. The film examines these questions, seeks to separate the historical Cleopatra from the myth, and unravels the background which led to the Roman-Egyptian Liaison. A journey into the past, a journey on which cyphers and riddles, labyrinths and hieroglyphs, conceal the truth again and again. LOST CIVILIZATIONS strives to bring light into the darkness.
Around 1995 Time Life's Lost Civilizations were released on video, there were intially 10 episodes which are listed on imdb here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0112054/...
These first 10 episodes are public domain and have been uploaded by Time Life here:
archive.org/details/lost-civi...
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These are readily available on VHS, there are always tapes of them selling for a few quid. But while browsing for them I stumbled across 14 further episodes. Now it's taken nearly 10 years for me to get all of them. The episodes I have now transferred for this channel are The Huns (7940111), Hannibal (7940112), The Vikings (7940113), Crete (7940114), Alexander the Great (7940115), Cleopatra (7940116), Nero (7940117), Ramses (7940118), Charlemagne (7940119), Richard the Lionheart (7940120), The Phoenicians (7940121), China's First Emperor (7940122), Akhenaten and Nefertit (7940123) and Nebuchadnezzar (7940124). The numbers in brackets refer to the code on the spine. These tapes do not have barcodes / ISBN numbers. Episodes of Lost Voices will follow at a later date.
I've used a JVC D560 with nicam bass boost on a few tapes and a Toshiba DVD-R recorder to transfer them to DVD. A couple of them have audio dropouts near the start and the odd flicker. If better versions become available I will replace them.

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I'm so enjoying the series, Chris. Thank you for the patient curation