Donkey milk even exist). In addition, the flavour and appearance of donkey milk have been found to be attractive to children. Equid (donkey and horse) milk can be considered a suitable substrate for probiotic beverage production. The use of fermented equid milk is an ancient tradition in central Asia, like koumiss or airag, a fermented mares milk very popular in Asia and Russia; but there are also traditional variants made from donkey milk. In Mongolia, where koumiss is the national drink, people have a saying that ‘kumys cures 40 diseases’. It is said that Cleopatra, Queen of Ancient Egypt, took baths in
Death of Cleopatra argues that Cleopatra was murdered and the details of it were covered up by Roman authorities. Claims that she was murdered, however, contradict the majority of primary sources that report her cause of death as suicide. Historian Patricia Southern speculates that Octavian could have possibly allowed Cleopatra to choose the manner of her death instead of executing her. Grout writes that Octavian may have wanted to avoid the sort of sympathy espoused for Cleopatra's younger sister Arsinoe IV when she was paraded in chains but spared during Julius Caesar's triumph. Octavian perhaps permitted Cleopatra to die by her own hand