[Verginius Rufus]

Cleopatra was Macedonian by ancestry, with perhaps some Egyptian ancestry. In Hellenistic times there were lots of Greeks in Alexandria and in some other places in Egypt, but the original Egyptian population was not Greek. DNA studies show they were mostly related to the people of western Asia (with some sub-Saharan ancestry mixed in).

[PIF]

Cleopatra was Macedonian by ancestry,
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