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  • 'Sensational' Egypt find offers clues in hunt for Cleopatra's tomb

    07/15/2020 7:43:48 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 17 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Monday, July 13, 2020 | Dalya Alberge
    The opening of the first-ever intact tomb found at Taposiris Magna was witnessed by cameras for a new Channel 5 documentary, The Hunt for Cleopatra's Tomb, to be screened on Thursday. It is presented by Dr Glenn Godenho, a senior lecturer in Egyptology at Liverpool University, who described the discovery as phenomenal. "Although now covered in dust from 2,000 years underground, at the time these mummies would have been spectacular. To be covered in gold leaf shows they ... would have been ... important members of society," he said. The mummies have been X-rayed, establishing that they are male and...