This reconstruction has been updated! Find it here.

Friday bonus post! A lot of you asked me when I posted my original Cleopatra if I could make her with curly hair. I created this new version for those requests – which do y’all like better? As a reminder, Cleo was part of the Ptolemaic dynastic, a Hellenistic dynasty ruling Egypt – so her skin would be lighter than the typical Egyptian 😊 Left Portrait: Public Domain, Right Portrait base: iStock photo. Created using Photoshop.