CLEOpAtra aNd AnTOny's CHiIDren REdisCoVerEd

Cleopatra's twin babies 'Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene' now have a face. An Italian Egyptologist has rediscovered their portrait in a forgotten sculpture at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Discovered in 1918 near the temple of Dendera on the west bank of the Nile, the sandstone statue was acquired by the Egyptian Museum but has remained largely overlooked.

The babies weren't the firsts for Cleopatra. The Queen of Egypt had already given birth in 47 B.C., when she bore Julius Caesar a child, Caesarion. In 36 B.C. she presented Antony with another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus.