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Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
Image via Wikipedia “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” opens Saturday at the Franklin Institute and runs through Jan. 2, 2011. The 18,000-square-foot exhibition, which will travel to four other North American cities, includes about 150 artifacts ranging in size from coins to massive statues and weighing a total of 30 tons. Arts... »
The Tomb of Cleopatra: The search continues
Dr Kathleen Martinez, a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, has been excavating a site near Alexandria in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra. After being given permission to conduct a dig at the site for 2 months, Dr Martinez’s team have discovered two chambers which has won them the right to continue... »
Cleopatra and her archaeologist
Kathleen Martinez is a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic who has toiled for three years on a barren hillside overlooking the coastal highway linking Alexandria with the Libyan border. According to the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, it’s here, at a spot known as Abusir, that the tomb of Marc Antony and Cleopatra... »
Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb
Archeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic next week will begin excavating three sites near the Mediterranean Sea that may contain the tombs of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said today the three sites were discovered last month during a radar survey of the temple of Taposiris Magna. Work on excavating the... »
Cleopatra: European, African or both?
Archaeologists and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra’s younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are... »
Cleopatra's true face?
Image by mharrsch via Flickr The world seems to have this pervading fascination with Cleopatra’s beauty, but how did she really look like? Using images from ancient artefacts including a ring dating from Cleopatra’s reign 2,000 years ago, Cambridge University’s Sally Ann Ashton has pieced together an entirely different image that shows her as a mixed... »
Book: Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
by Joyce Tyldesley A new biography of the Macedonian ruler attempts to debunk many myths surrounding her legacy. Egyptologist Tyldesley (Egypt: How a Lost Civilization Was Rediscovered, 2006, etc.) digs deeply into Cleopatra’s life, piecing together a unique portrait of her successes and failures. Many biographers focus too much on Cleopatra’s reputation as a temptress, but... »
