A team of archaeologists who have been searching for Cleopatra’s tomb for two decades have discovered an underground tunnel in Egypt, which they believe could lead to the discovery of where the Queen of the Nile was buried.
Described as a crucial advance in locating the Egyptian queen’s tomb, the tunnel, just over a kilometer long, revealed a “huge religious center, with three shrines, a sacred lake and more than 1,500 objects, busts, and objects of gold.” Archaeologist Kathleen revealed Martinez for coins depicting Alexander the Great and Queen Cleopatra.
Excavation work, which began in 2005, has provided access to a set of connections and tunnels that extend into the Mediterranean Sea and to many submerged structures. These are the buildings that the team now wants to explore and that they consider a crucial step toward discovering the last address of the last representative of a Greek-Macedonian dynasty installed in Egypt, and the person they believe was the first woman to study at the Alexandria Museum,” Kathleen told CNN International.
The site of the study, next to the ruined city of Taposiris Magna, on the northern coast of Egypt, has long been considered the closest place to make this long-awaited discovery, that is, because it is believed that Cleopatra may have chosen to bury her. Husband in the temple of Osiris, the god of the dead in Egyptian mythology.
New stage: underwater excavations
Research project supported by Egyptian government You will now enter a new stage, with underwater digs to explore the exposed submerged tunnels. These structures have been inundated over the centuries as the area under study has suffered from the impact of numerous earthquakes.
Although he admitted to CNN that it is still “too early” to know what kind of discoveries these tunnels could lead to, Martinez is hopeful that Cleopatra’s tomb will finally be found, seeing a potential discovery as the “most important of a century.”
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