Continuity mistake: When the doctor explains to Cleopatra what epilepsy is, the white cloth on the box next to him disappears between shots.
Factual error: When Cleopatra is lying down and talking to Caesar, her flesh-coloured underwear is visible.
Revealing mistake: During the naval battle, a long rope runs from the side of a burning ship on the left, out offscreen, to keep it steady.
Continuity mistake: Mark Antony puts his cape over Casio's hands. A shot later, his hands are uncovered.
Continuity mistake: Mark Antony covers Casio's corpse with his cape except for his feet. A shot later, his feet are suddenly covered.
Continuity mistake: Mark Antony throws Casio's shroud away, but a shot later it reappears over his feet.
Deliberate mistake: Elizabeth Taylor suffered a tracheotomy while filming the movie. A noticeable scar on her throat appears and disappears randomly during the movie.
Factual error: A large golden modern mechanical table clock is visible next to Mark Antony, centuries before it was invented. In ancient Egypt, they used sundials and water clocks. (02:31:55)
Continuity mistake: Caesar unrolls the rug where Cleopatra is and holds it upwards, while she rolls 2 metres ahead. An instant cut later, the rug is on the floor and she is barely half a metre away.
Revealing mistake: Cleopatra rides a sphinx during her spectacular introductory parade in Rome. Just as the Sphinx is about to pass through the Roman arch, sunlight casts shadows of the open girder lattice behind the Arch's facade.
Continuity mistake: When Cleopatra lies dead, the position of her hands and the cane she holds change three times.
Continuity mistake: Mark Antony walks in the site where Cleopatra's tomb is being built. He wears a soldier's uniform and she a red gown, purple robe and a short wig. She walks five steps forward and suddenly they're in a completely different place: both in her bedroom, she wearing now a dreadlock wig, white dress and transparent robe, while he is resting on a couch dressed in red civilian clothes. She walks offscreen and a shot later she has yet another wig, another dress, different belt and black robe.
Suggested correction: It creatively shows how long their ongoing passionate argument continues through the day, with changes in the time of day, location, and attire; done with three separate, consecutive scenes, signifying time jump transitions. First, it's daytime when Mark Antony joins Cleopatra at her tomb's construction; they argue, and she walks away. With the next transition, it's later in the day; they still argue in a different location and attire, then she walks away. The last transition is another jump in time; it's evening, with Cleopatra now in her nighttime attire, as their argument has been going strong all day.
