According to the researchers, the discovery of a sinking harbor on the shores of Egypt can offer a piece of puzzle a long -lasting Cleopatra lost grave and gaze to the ancient country’s maritime activities.
A team of underwater archaeologists, including National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez and National Geographic Explorer-Large Bob Ballard, is not covered with high-structures that may have been more than 20 feet (6 meters) in the Mediterranean. Researchers also found polished stone floors, cement blocks, boat anchors and high -storage jars called “Ampfor”, all dating back to Cleopatra.
The team found the harbor, tracing a previously excavated tunnel, covering a 4281 foot (1,305 meters), which seemed to linked the ancient Taporis Magna Temple, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Alexandria, by the sea.
Martínez believes that becoming Magna is the main place associated with the burial of Cleopatra, although many archaeologists disagree with her hypothesis.
Conclusions on September 18th. The Ministry of Tourism and Antique of Egypt has been published by the Ministry of Tourism, published by the National Geographic and is shown in its documentary titled “Cleopatra’s final secret” now broadcast Disney+and Hulu.
“I have been doing this for 50 years. I have been underwater. I have never seen anything like it. It clearly seems to be a man’s created by man,” said the underwater structures of the documentary. Famous oceanographer, senior scientist emeritus, applied ocean physics and engineering, Woods Hole Oceanography in Massachusetts, found RMS Titanic in 1985.
As the temple and underwater place begins with a new three -month excavation, Martínez, a lawyer of the Dominican Republic, which appealed to diplomacy and archeology, believes that the find is a promising next step in 20 years of her 20 -year search Queen Cleopatra VII.
“The discovery of Cleopatra’s tomb will be one of the biggest discoveries of the century,” she said CNN. “Because the ancient Egyptians talk to us through their graves, I believe she should have all this important information she wanted us to know about her, about her time, about how she thinks.”
Several anchors were found on the site. – National Geographic
Secrets of Death of Cleopatra
Despite the short life of 39 years, Cleopatra influenced the ancient world as one of the few women’s rulers and the last Egyptian Pharaoh.
Cleopatra was born in Alexandria at 69. Pr. BC, at the age of 18, crowned the Queen and died for 30 years. Pr. BC. After he was defeated by Octavian, also known as the Emperor Augustus and the founder of the Roman Empire, during the Actium Battle 31. Pr. BC.
As part of their victory, the Romans destroyed Cleopatra’s images to forget it, and survived only seven statues that seem to portray the Queen, Martínez said.
“Cleopatra is a mystery and it has also become a myth,” Martínez said. “There are so many questions about her, even as she looked. So the discovery of her grave, if not violated, will answer all those questions.”
Instead of being caught by the Romans, the Legend says Cleopatra allowed the poisonous ASP to bite her in Alexandria, the documentary said. However, the exact circumstances of her death remain unknown, some investigators indicate that she died after the poison was swallowed.
“I believe she would have done anything to stop her body in the Roman hands,” Martínez said in a documentary.
The Martínez hypothesis is that after the death of Cleopatra, the body was brought to Tapisi Magna, transported to the seaport through the tunnel and placed in a secret place.
In life, Cleopatra was closely related to the goddess ISIS, given that the ancient Egyptians considered royal figures in extensions of deities. Martínez looked at all the temples near Alexandria, where Cleopatra reportedly died and rejected it as the last place of her rest if she was a small or non -ISIS temple.
Martínez zero stuck on the big ruins of the Magna Temple, now in Borg’s El Arabic, despite the fact that there was no information on which deity was or built for the deity.
After 2004 Was granted a license to excavate in the temple, 2005. Martínez and her team uncovered a piece of blue glass. Glass engraved with descriptions in Greek and hieroglyphs was a foundation plate stating that the temple was dedicated to the goddess ISIS.
A few weeks later, the expedition team also found hundreds of bronze coins with Cleopatra’s face and name. Since then, Martínez and her team have uncovered many artefacts, including a long tunnel located in 43 feet (13 meters) after becoming Magna, found in 2022.
During archaeological diving, the team found that what appeared as a drowned domestic port, which is now subject to Coral. The formation of maps shows that the ancient coastline is about 2.4 miles (4 kilometers from the present coast, the ministry shared in a report.
Secretary -General of the Supreme Ancient Council dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled said the drowning port discovery significantly increases Egyptian maritime archeology, given that the location states that the location is not indicated in ancient sources.
Tourism and ancient minister Sheriff Fathy said the find emphasizes that the Egyptian coast was strategic commercial and cultural communication centers with the rest of the ancient world, the report said.
Fathy noted that the ministry would continue to support Martínez’s research projects.
Finding Cleopatra’s grave
Egyptian tourism and ancient ministry said in December last year in a social media record, Martínez and its team also made new discoveries under the southern wall of Magna external enclosure.
Researchers have uncovered 337 coins, with many depicting Cleopatra’s face, as well as ceramic and limestone vessels for food and cosmetics, statues, a bronze ring for the goddess Hathor, and an amulet formed as a scarab with the inscription, “Rightness”.
The ring and ceramic articles helped investigators determine that the construction of the temple dates back to the first century BC, the ministry said.
A small statue of a woman carrying a diadem and a limestone king of the limestone was also excavated.
Martínez believed to be a female statue to depict Cleopatra – the moment that is included in the documentary.
“Many archaeologists dispute this statement, noting that the facial features differ from the known views of Cleopatra VII,” the ministry said. “The statue is more likely to reflect another royal woman or princess.”
Now Martínez and her team are going to take examples from underwater website to better understand the artifacts and ceramics found there so far. She said she felt as if every excavation would come to a single step, and that finding Cleopatra’s tomb – and probably the Queen’s political ally and lover Roman General Mark Antony, because historical texts say they were buried together – just a matter of time.
“The discovery of her grave, along with modern technology, will allow you to know exactly how she died,” Martínez said. “We can even reconstruct her face.”
However, experts are skeptical of Martínez’s funeral theory associated with “Taporis Magna”.
“In my opinion, Cleo was buried in the Royal Alexandria Cemetery,” said Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis Professor at Greek Culture Emeritus at Cambridge University and AG Leventis Senior Researcher at Clare College, email. In the letter.
Diving team members withdrew from the sand from the polished floor, which were part of the port. – National Geographic
Cartledge is a historian of the ancient Greek-Roman world and Hellenistic Alexandria, but said he was not a specialist in Cleopatra or its time and local archaeologist. He did not participate in excavation.
“(Emperor) Augustas wanted the Cleo to be buried there and stayed there: Cleo was the last Egyptian Farohh, and he introduced himself as legal, direct Pharaoh’s heirs,” said Cartledge. “Unfortunately, the quarter of Alexandria-Duel Earthquakes, Land and Sea Carpet-Dabar is irreversibly submerged, and not even Jacques Cousteau could find any royal graves of Helen-Egiptians.”
The discovery and discovery of historical figures such as the King of Egypt Tutanchhamun are rare, but can give great insight, said Dr. Jane Draycott, senior lecturer at ancient history at Glasgow University Humanities School.
For example, the discovery of King Richard III remains under the car park in Lester in 2021. In the revolution, as historians understand the end of the Plantagnet dynasty, Draycott said.
Draycott also did not participate in Egyptian excavations.
“So far, no other tomb of the ptolemen rulers we know from ancient sources was in the Royal Quarter in Alexandria,” said Draycott. It remains skeptical as it has yet to see any of Martínez’s works published through reviewed academic publications, making it difficult to assess justice.
“Cleopatra had her own private port in Alexandria, next to her palace, and it seems that all literary sources agree that her tomb was in Alexandria, not becoming Magna,” wrote Draycott e -mail. In the letter. “Obviously, if she discovered Cleopatra’s grave, it remained enough to finally recognize it (eg.
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