Dr Kathleen Martinez has been searching for the elusive tomb of Cleopatra VII for nearly two decades, and now believes she ...

Archaeologist Kathleen Martinez has spent more than 20 years searching for the tomb of Cleopatra VII and now claims to have ...

Among the findings reported by Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has been digging at the site since 2005 in search of Cleopatra VII’s tomb, were 337 ancient coins bearing the queen ...

In short, Bianchi says, for Cleopatra “there is nothing that approaches the Western concept of a portrait in either ancient Egyptian or ancient Greek art.” A coin from Antony and Cleopatra’s alliance, ...

A statue discovered at Cleopatra’s tomb allegedly reveals the Egyptian queen’s true face. An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission in collaboration with the National University Pedro ...

G. Dagli Orti /© NPL - DeA Picture Library / Bridgeman Images A bronze coin with the profile of Cleopatra wearing a diadem. Coins found bearing her image tell conflicting stories of what ...

Cleopatra started producing a Roman coin while she was living with her new lover Marc Antony. This Roman Denarius is very unique for bearing portraits on both sides of it. Having a foreign queen ...

She may be one of the most recognizable figures in history, but we have little idea what Cleopatra actually looked like. Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime, and which she likely ...

Cleopatra, countered Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry, was white, with “Hellenistic characteristics,” an assertion that her Greek Macedonian ancestry and coin portraits would seem to confirm.

The deposit found beneath this structure also included oil lamps, a scarab amulet that reads “The justice of Ra has arisen,” and a trove of 337 coins—many featuring Cleopatra’s silhouette.

Kathleen Martinez, who has been searching for the tomb of Cleopatra for nearly 20 years, has uncovered a statue believed to ...