TIL Cleopatra was ethnically Greek, not Egyptian. Her ancestor Ptolomy served in Alexander the Great's army. After Alexander's, death Ptolemy stole the body & used it to claim legitimacy as ruler of Egypt. His dynasty lasted 292 years until Augustus Cesar defeated Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.

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The recon of the skull of Arsinoe, the teenage sister she had assassinated, showed her to be a mix of North African and European. Cleo was probably the same.

So a darker shade of Caucasoid than you see in Greece, but not by much.

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https://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/cleopatras-sister-arsinoe-reconstructed/