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In contrast, the persona of “La Divina Cleopatra”—a term borrowed from opera (La Divina, referring to Maria Callas) and extended into popular media—represents a different mode of engagement. This Cleopatra is not a monster but a goddess of performance, celebrated for her theatricality and emotional excess. From Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to the Hollywood musical and the drag stage, La Divina is the queen of camp. The most iconic cinematic embodiment remains Elizabeth Taylor’s 1963 Cleopatra, a film whose real drama—the off-screen affair between Taylor and Richard Burton—became inseparable from the on-screen romance. Taylor’s Cleopatra is less a historical politician than a mid-century Hollywood diva: draped in gold, delivering epigrams like a talk-show host, and commanding armies with a raised eyebrow. This version has been endlessly parodied and paid homage to in television comedies ( The Simpsons , Saturday Night Live ), music videos (from Lizzo to Beyoncé’s “Formation” visual album), and even video games (the Civilization series, where Cleopatra flirts with other leaders). “La Divina” treats history as a costume party: the queen’s famous death by asp becomes a final, exquisite performance. In this media strand, Cleopatra’s power is not threatening but aspirational; she is the ultimate self-made icon, a woman who turns politics into art.

First, the Mummy franchise presents Cleopatra not as a protagonist but as a foundational ghost—a source of cursed power and forbidden knowledge. In The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), the narrative revolves around the resurrected Imhotep, but the shadow of Cleopatra lingers in the film’s aesthetic and thematic DNA. The Egypt on screen is one of golden sands, elaborate jewelry, and decadent, dangerous sexuality—a direct inheritance from Hollywood’s Cleopatra tradition (most notably the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor version). When the female lead, Evelyn Carnahan, transforms from a librarian into a reincarnated Egyptian princess, she channels a Cleopatra-like command: intelligent, desirous, and unafraid to wield power. In the franchise’s 2017 reboot, The Mummy , the female antagonist Ahmanet explicitly mirrors Cleopatra’s legend: a princess who murders her family and makes a pact with a dark god to seize the throne. Both versions exploit what cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett calls the “Cleopatra complex”: the Western fear of a powerful, sexually autonomous woman from the East. The mummy, like Cleopatra, must be contained, re-wrapped, and returned to her sarcophagus—lest she destabilize both patriarchy and imperial order. Thus, in Mummy content, “Mummy X” is the ultimate femme fatale whose return is always both a horror and a guilty pleasure.

The image of Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, has undergone more dramatic reinventions than perhaps any other ancient figure. In the collective imagination, she is simultaneously the cunning political strategist, the tragic romantic heroine, and the opulent oriental queen. Two particularly potent, if ostensibly distinct, strands of modern entertainment content—the action-horror Mummy franchise and the high-camp, operatic persona of “La Divina Cleopatra”—demonstrate how popular media continuously exhumes and re-mummifies the queen to serve contemporary anxieties and desires. By examining the Mummy films (1999-2017) alongside the broader cultural archetype of “La Divina” (the divine, theatrical Cleopatra), this essay argues that Cleopatra functions as a uniquely malleable screen onto which each generation projects its fears of foreign power, its fantasies of female authority, and its hunger for spectacular spectacle. Far from being a historical figure, the Cleopatra of entertainment content is a living myth, a “Mummy X” whose identity remains perpetually unresolved.