The villainous Berenice IV of Egypt (Cleopatra's forgotten sister) Lion TV - Cleopatra; Portrait of a killer 1/6. Lion TV - Cleopatra; Portrait of a killer 3/6. Lion TV - Cleopatra; Portrait of a killer 5/6. Lion TV - Cleopatra; Portrait of a killer 2/6. Lion TV - Cleopatra; Portrait of a killer 4/6. Cleopatra killed by drug cocktail? - Cleopatra died from a lethal drug cocktail instead of a snakebite, according to a new study. - Death by snakebite is a painful and unpleasant experience.
Symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea and more. - The last queen of Egypt more likely succumbed to a plant poison mixture. Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, died from swallowing a lethal drug cocktail and not from a snake bite, a new study claims. According to Christoph Schäfer, a German historian and professor at the University of Trier, the legendary beauty queen was unlikely to have committed suicide by letting an asp -- an Egyptian cobra -- sink into her flesh. "There was no cobra in Cleopatra's death," Schäfer told Discovery News.
The author of a best-selling book in Germany, "Cleopatra," Schäfer searched historic writings for evidence to disprove the 2,000-year-old asp legend. "Death may occur within 45 minutes, but it may also be longer with painful edema at the bite site.