In 48 BC, Cleopatra was in love with Julius Caesar, and since the Roman was in Egypt at that time, the couple decided to make a cruise sailing the river Nile to the south. They travelled with the thalamegos, a large ship of the Ptolemaic kings and queens. Cleopatra was pregnant, she was probably in her second month. The Kom Ombo temple is visible in the background. Illustration created for Desperta Ferro Arqueología e Historia n.º 34: El Egipto de Cleopatra