Cleopatra's long lost tomb may have finally been found 40ft beneath Egyptian temple

[WarGamer]

Don't hold your breath... but if it were true...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1693798/cleopatra-ancient-egypt-update-lost-tomb-below-ground-archaeology-news-latest

While Ms Martinez has since admitted that there is only one percent chance of finding their remains, she said that should they stumble across the long-lost tomb, it would mark the "most important discovery of the 21st century".

She said: "I needed to come to Egypt…to see the remains of this temple, to be sure that it has the possibility of being the lost tomb of Cleopatra. This is the perfect place for the tomb of Cleopatra.

"If there’s a one percent chance that the last queen of Egypt could be buried there, it is my duty to search for her.
The Egyptian authorities said if Dr Martinez's team do successfully locate the tomb, it will be "the most important discovery of the 21st century".

[Lucinda]

1. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[haele]

2. I would have liked to hear how she thought it might be Cleopatra VII's tomb.

Otherwise, it's just possibly a tomb. Or a temple. Or someone's smuggling tunnel to get library books and artifacts away from the Church Fathers as they were cracking down on Paganism.

IMO, it's rather unprofessional to be announcing a find like this and then say there's a 1% chance it's Cleopatra's tomb. My mom was the Grad Student advisor to the Dept. Of Archeology and Anthropology, and this sort of announcement would never have been acceptable on a Graduate dig.

Haele

[secondwind]

5. I don't see it this way at all.

She admits that it may not be the tomb, etc. I find this very exciting!

[lindysalsagal]

3. how exciting!

[tavernier]

4. There was a TV special a couple of years back.

I’m wondering if this is the same site?

[eppur_se_muova]

7. It's the same woman -- Dr. Kathleen Martinez.

Interesting Wikipedia entry.

[msongs]

6. is liz taylor buried there? nt

[Beakybird]

8. No but Mia Pharaoh's ancestors are.

[malaise]

9. Nicely played

😀😀😀

[keithbvadu2]

10. Put Geraldo Rivera on the job.