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Translation: you can’t refute the sources, so you pretend they don’t exist. Cleopatra’s maternal line is unknown*, the dynasty had Persian and possibly Egyptian ancestry**, and Egypt had centuries of black African rulers***. History doesn’t care about your coping.
*Roller, Cleopatra: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 25–26, Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown, 2010), p. 33, Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society under the Ptolemies (Cornell University Press, 2000), p. 42.
**Polybius, Histories 22.1
***The 25th Dynasty of Egypt (c. 747–656 BCE) was Kushite/Nubian. These rulers are well-documented as Black African kings. Cf: Herodotus, Histories 2.141, Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Random House, 2010), p. 317–332, Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization (Brill, 1997), p. 151–173,