A New Discovery Could Help Lead Archaeologists to Cleopatra’s Tomb

Popular Mechanics ^ | Sep 24, 2025 | Elizabeth Rayne

[circlecity]

“ it is thought that the tomb of Cleopatra may be hidden somewhere in the enormous temple complex.”

Well, that nails it down.

[Palio di Siena]

Underwater as well.

[Da Coyote]

The tomb is right next to Amelia Earheart’s Lockheed.

[jerod]

Cleopatra and Mark Anthony were the losers... Losers don’t get tombs.

[Hyman Roth]

Like I said on another thread. Quit wasting money. Just ask Keith Richards.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually you might say that the last Pharaoh was Ptolemy XV Caesarion, Cleopatra’s son, proclaimed as co-ruler with his mother, and who outlived her briefly until Octavian had him killed.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Wanted Egypt and Rome both.

He might have been a decent (for a certain value of decent) ruler but as a person he stunk.

[Fiji Hill]

Dante uses his time machine to travel back 2,000 years so he can date Cleopatra.

Time Machine--Dante & the Evergreens (1960)

[Verginius Rufus]

Are you referring to Caesarion? He was just a teenager when he was killed so I don’t think we know enough about him to know how he would have turned out. At the end he would have been content just to have his life spared, but Octavian, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, didn’t want any biological sons of Caesar around. He would not have had any legal claim in Rome as the illegitimate son of a non-citizen.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

As I recall, Cleopatra's Tomb was next door to Plato's Retreat.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nah. I am referring to the most undivine Augustus.

The more you learn about him the more you begin to dislike him.

[tumblindice]

The Romans chucked her into the Red Sea.
She would bathe there periodically.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding kw, not pinging. This isn't really new per se.

The rest of the keyword, sorted:

• An Archaeologist Claims She's Found a Stunning Statue of Cleopatra at Her Alleged Tomb [12/13/2024]
• Vast tunnel found beneath ancient Egyptian temple [aqueduct] [11/08/2022]
• Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue [02/05/2021]
• Mummy with a gold tongue found in Egypt [02/02/2021]
• 'Sensational' Egypt find offers clues in hunt for Cleopatra's tomb [07/15/2020]
• Antony and Cleopatra's long lost tomb 'FOUND and is set to be uncovered' [01/21/2019]
• Threshold to Cleopatra's mausoleum discovered off Alexandria coast [01/01/2010]
• Tomb of the century [Anthony and Cleopatra] [04/29/2009]
• Is this Cleopatra's skull? The thrilling finds at the dig to discover Egypt's lost queen [04/20/2009]
• Egyptians hope to find Cleopatra's tomb [04/15/2009]
• Dig 'may reveal' Cleopatra's tomb [04/15/2009]
• 'Indiana Jones'-Like Archeologist Says He's Found Cleopatra's Tomb [05/25/2008]
• Egypt: Tomb Of Cleopatra And Lover To Be Uncovered [04/25/2008]
• First Tut, now Cleo in Dr Zahi's sights [08/18/2006]
• Spotlight interview with Dr. Zahi Hawass [ Tabusiris Magna / tomb of Cleopatra / Mark Anthony ?] [08/17/2006]

[Deepeasttx]

As I recall, Cleopatra’s Tomb was next door to Plato’s Retreat.

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Wrong

It’s in the basement under the Alamo.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I am referring to the most undivine Augustus. The more you learn about him the more you begin to dislike him.

Augustus single-handedly saved and preserved the Roman state. If you don't like the Roman Empire, then you don't like Augustus.

If Augustus lost the civil war, we'd most likely not be typing in these Roman letters, if we'd be typing at all.

[GingisK]

Do Roman records indicate that a tomb was indeed built for her? I suspect her body was merely dumped in a swamp.

[Verginius Rufus]

If you follow his early career it's very easy to dislike Octavian--pretty ruthless character. Cicero helped him a lot at the beginning of his career (for ulterior motives--as a way to try to stop Marc Antony) but later Octavian did not object when Antony insisted on having Cicero killed.

A while back I learned that I had an ancestor 13 generations back whose name was Octavian. It didn't make me think better of Caesar Octavianus.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Thousands of years ago, the port stood firmly on land. The coastline was four kilometers (about 2.5 miles) further out during Cleopatra’s time, ****

Blame it on the earth quake in 365 AD, not Glo-Bull Warming.

[nickcarraway]

Really? In an area that is known for extensive burial of it’s rulers?