A statue of a man

Egypt's last pharaoh was the 'love child' of Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesarion embodied his mother's alliance with Rome, but assassination and war would bring about his death at age 17, ending Ptolemaic rule in Egypt.

Caesarion wears the striped head cloth (nemes) of the pharaohs in a first-century B.C. rose granite statue, National Roman Museum, Rome

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