[Jimmy Valentine]

Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemaic Dybasty. Ptolemy I was the half brother of Alexander the Great, who was Macedonian/Northern Greek. Itis well known that Alexander was blond haired and blue eyed. While his brother Ptolemy was described as "swarthy", that is not black.

The Egyptian dynasties practiced close intermarriage supposedly to keep the royal blood pure.

Cleopatra (nobody knows what she looked like) may have looked very much like Jihan Sadat; with very regular features and lightly complected.

[Post Toasties]

I thought somebody mentioned a contemporary coin in which Cleopatra looked rather like former NYC mayor Ed Koch but with more hair.