Egypt
National Geographic
See the above for the video and the unedited transcript.
- More Re Search For Cleopatra
Egypt State Information Service An Egyptian - Dominican archaeological mission has discovered new leads that could help in detecting the burial place of legendary Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and her Roman lover Mark Antony. The mission has uncovered an alabaster...
- More On The Search For Cleopatra
AFP An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a mask thought to belong to her lover Mark Antony have been found near Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday. The two treasures, a bronze statue of Goddess Aphrodite...
- Search For Tomb Of Cleopatra And Mark Antony
adnkronos international Thanks very much to Pier for sending me this English version of yesterday's Spanish post on the same subject. Archaeologists have revealed plans to uncover the 2000 year-old tomb of ancient Egypt's most famous lovers, Cleopatra...
- Buried At The Temple
This is a roundup of the recent excavations going on at the temple of Taposiris Magna by an Egyptian Dominican team including the discovery of a headless statue of a King with the cartouche of Ptolemy IV. The article also speculates about the burial of...
- The Temple Of Taposiris Magna
The temple is currently being investigated to locate the mummies of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. I find it hard to believe that they would be found buried together and even if they were it would politically been more advantageous to cremate Mark Antony....
Egypt
Video: More re search for Cleopatra
National Geographic
Archaeologists are hoping to begin excavating three sites at a temple in Egypt soon in an attempt to find the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony. The temple is located near the northern coastal city of Alexandria and was built during the reign of King Ptolemy II.
Teams from Egypt and the Dominican Republic have been excavating the temple for the last three years. They found a number of deep shafts inside the temple, three of which were possibly used for burials.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Zahi Hawass, General Secretary, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt: "We did a survey by radar for one month, and the radar showed three important anomalies. We hope that one of them could be the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony."
Archaeologists last year unearthed the alabaster head of a Cleopatra statue, 22 coins bearing Cleopatra's image and a mask believed to belong to Mark Antony at the temple.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Zahi Hawass, General Secretary, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt: "We believe that Cleopatra and Mark Antony were buried inside this temple. This temple is called Taposiris Magna. It is located 50 kilometers west of Alexandria and we think this is really a perfect place for Cleopatra and Mark Antony to be hidden in this place. We know from Plutarch they were buried together, and it took her permission to be buried in Alexandria."
See the above for the video and the unedited transcript.
- More Re Search For Cleopatra
Egypt State Information Service An Egyptian - Dominican archaeological mission has discovered new leads that could help in detecting the burial place of legendary Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and her Roman lover Mark Antony. The mission has uncovered an alabaster...
- More On The Search For Cleopatra
AFP An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a mask thought to belong to her lover Mark Antony have been found near Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday. The two treasures, a bronze statue of Goddess Aphrodite...
- Search For Tomb Of Cleopatra And Mark Antony
adnkronos international Thanks very much to Pier for sending me this English version of yesterday's Spanish post on the same subject. Archaeologists have revealed plans to uncover the 2000 year-old tomb of ancient Egypt's most famous lovers, Cleopatra...
- Buried At The Temple
This is a roundup of the recent excavations going on at the temple of Taposiris Magna by an Egyptian Dominican team including the discovery of a headless statue of a King with the cartouche of Ptolemy IV. The article also speculates about the burial of...
- The Temple Of Taposiris Magna
The temple is currently being investigated to locate the mummies of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. I find it hard to believe that they would be found buried together and even if they were it would politically been more advantageous to cremate Mark Antony....