Nefertiti

Nefertiti's mother was the queen's maid, and her father was a scribe. Around the age of fifteen, she was married to King Aknenaton. When Nefertiti fell out of favor, she was replaced by Meritaten, one of six daughters. A painted sarcophagus of her is in the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Germany. It is one of the greatest arts of Egypt to survive. Sarcophagus- a stone coffin or tomb.

Cleopatra VII
Cleopatra was the daughter of Ptolemy XII. She lived from 69 - 30 B.C. She was famous for her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. When she was seventeen, her father died and she was forced to marry her brother, Ptolemy XIII, age twelve. In the third year of their reign, Ptolemy drove Cleopatra into exile. She gathered any army in Syria, but was unable to defeat her brother until the arrival of Julius Caesar. In 47 B.C., Ptolemy was killed and Caesar proclaimed Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. Cleopatra was again forced to marry her younger brother, Ptolemy XIV. She lived in Rome with Caesar and bore him a son, named Ptolemy XV . When Caesar was assassinated, she returned to Egypt and it is believed that she poisoned Ptolemy XIV and placed her son, Ptolemy XV on the throne. When Mark Antony summoned Cleopatra to explain her behavior, but he fell in love with her and married her after divorcing his wife, Octavia.

When Octavian became ruler of Rome, he sent word to Antony that Cleopatra had been murdered by Romans. Mark Antony killed himself. When Cleopatra discovered he had died, she committed suicide, believed to be with poison from an Egyptian asp (snake). Her son, Ptolemy XV, was put to death by Octavian, and Egypt became a Roman province. Ptolemy XV was the last of the Ptolemy dynasty.