Betcha didn't know

Now they're saying that it was not the bite of an asp that did Cleopatra in . 
Christoph Schaefer, a professor of ancient history at Trier University in Germany, says that Cleopatra likely died of a poison overdose, not a snakebite. Some of his reasons include a cobra’s bite is not always fatal, and can lead to a slow and agonizing death, and she was reported to have died a quick and painless death. Also, she died in August, when the temperature would have been too hot for a snake to stay still long enough to bite its victim.


(We read about Cleopatra while studying Rome).