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in HBO's Rome the actress they had playing Cleopatra, has slightly darker features than most of the Roman cast, presumably because she's supposed to be North African. the Ptolemies were originally Greek, by the time of Cleopatra's birth had they interbred with native Egyptians much/at all?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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