@givenup @BowsacNoodle @pettanko @kf01 It's probably common knowledge here, but she also had red hair. But, that girl might not explicitly be Cleopatra.

A tangent, but the Egyptians did paint themselves more accurately, and they more or less look how you'd expect, somewhat Arab somewhat Mediterranean. But I imagine these represent only the highest classes of society. There's a description of the people Cleopatra brought when she went to Rome, and they described that she had an army of slaves who looked like they came from Northern Europe (if I remember correctly, because they had such red hair).