{"id":787,"date":"2016-11-25T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natgeokids.com?p=787"},"modified":"2018-03-30T08:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T08:31:50","slug":"cleopatra-snake-scientists-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/nz\/discover\/history\/egypt\/cleopatra-snake-scientists-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Cleopatra really die from a snake bite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cleopatra snake bite story 'impossible' say scientists at Manchester University\" width=\"635\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite-1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"s1\">Scientists have revealed that the Ancient Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, may NOT have died of a snake bite!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cleopatra was the last female\u00a0<strong>pharaoh<\/strong> of <strong>Egypt<\/strong>, and her legendary story has become one of the most hotly debated of all the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngkids.co.uk\/history\/ten-facts-about-ancient-egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancient Egyptian facts<\/a>\u00a0and secrets!<\/p>\n<p>When the <strong>Roman Empire<\/strong> took control of Egypt in 44 BC, Cleopatra decided to take her own life rather than surrender it to the new Roman Emperor, <strong>Octavian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">As tradition has it, the queen smuggled a snake into her pre-built burial chamber, where she used its venom to kill herself and her two most faithful servants, <strong>Charmion<\/strong> and <strong>Eiras<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But new research has cast doubt on this story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Clever snake experts and Egyptologists down at the University of Manchester have said that the suspected culprit &#8211; a cobra &#8211; couldn&#8217;t possibly have been small enough to be concealed in a small basket, as the story claims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite.jpg\" alt=\"Cleopatra snake bite story 'impossible' say scientists at Manchester University\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cleopatra-snake-bite-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cleopatra&#8217;s legendary last moments might all be a fib!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A cobra is typically <strong>1.5m long<\/strong>, and experts say that it would have been difficult to sneak a snake of that size into Cleopatra&#8217;s tomb without raising a few eyebrows!<\/p>\n<p>They believe that even if the snake had been smuggled in, it would have been &#8220;impossible&#8221; to use a snake bite to kill two or three people.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Gray, an expert on amphibians at Manchester Museum said, &#8220;<span class=\"s1\">Not only are cobras too big, but there&#8217;s just a 10% chance you would die from a snake bite: most bites are dry bites that don&#8217;t inject venom.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Snakes save their venom for when they most need it &#8211; during hunting and for protection &#8211; so the scientists don&#8217;t believe that one snake would have delivered three fatal bites one after the other &#8211; yikes!<\/p>\n<p>So how <em>did<\/em> Cleopatra die? Well, scientists are still deciding! Many believe she may instead have taken a cocktail of poison &#8211; but who knows if we&#8217;ll ever discover the last queen of Egypt&#8217;s dying secret?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that we have a FREE downloadable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/nz\/primary-resource\/cleopatra-primary-resource\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleopatra primary resource<\/a>? Great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents alike!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have revealed that the Ancient Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, may NOT have died of a snake bite! Cleopatra was the last female\u00a0pharaoh of Egypt, and her legendary story has become one of the most hotly debated of all the\u00a0Ancient Egyptian facts\u00a0and secrets! 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