Cleopatra became queen at age 17.
Cleopatra became queen at age 17. and she lived for another 20 years, until her untimely death at age 39. She was fluent in nine different tongues. She was the only member of her dynasty to understand the ancient Egyptian language and read hieroglyphics. She was also fluent in Greek, Hebrew, Medes, Troglodytes, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Arabic, among other languages. Now that she knew this, she could read whatever book she wanted. She was well-versed in many fields, including but not limited to linguistics, geography, history, astronomy, international diplomacy, mathematics, alchemy, medicine, zoology, economics, and physics. She actively sought out any and all available historical information. Cleopatra devoted a significant portion of her life to working in a prehistoric equivalent of a laboratory. She has penned a few books on herbal remedies and beauty treatments. All of her work was lost in the great Library of Alexandria fire in 391 A.D. C. Galen, a well-known physicist, read her wo...