My understanding is that we know much more about Cleopatra than Nefertiti or Hatshepsut, in part because of how Ancient Egyptians thought about history, in part because both were victims of later regimes who tried to erase them from that history.https://twitter.com/SamEilertsen/status/1315690029197545477 …
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Part of it is an accident of source preservation (the Greek literary tradition was more carefully preserved) and part of it was that Cleopatra was instrumentalized in later Roman literature as a particular form of the dangerous, foreign 'other' rather than being erased.
To be fair, both Nefertiti and Hatshepsut belong to the Bronze Age, and our information on *most* Bronze Age rulers is pretty thin on the ground. But Cleopatra is well documented even compared to other Hellenistic monarchs, because of how she figures into the Roman lit. trad.
