Posted on 04/20/2009 7:47:04 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Archaeologists searching for the lost bodies of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony have made a number of important discoveries.
In what could be the most thrilling finds since the tomb of Tutankhamun was unearthed in 1922, leading Egyptologists believe they are edging ever closer to the country's most fabled queen.
The female skull was found during a radar survey of a temple close to Alexandria, Egypt, and workers are hopeful they will also find the remains of the celebrated Roman general.
Egypt's top archaeologist Zahi Hawass was optimistic of making a significant find when the dig began last month.
'This could be the most important discovery of the 21st century,' he said.
'This is the perfect place for them to be hidden.'
The skull is not confirmed as Cleopatra's but is set to be tested by scientists, alongside a complete body found in a stone coffin.
The excavation aims to unravel a number of questions that have lingered over the couple, including whether they were buried together, her reputed beauty and their suicide.
Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the three sites were identified in February during the radar survey.
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It does not look like Liz Taylor so Ziwi is wrong on this one...
“How do WE know that? We are not the last judge are we?”
That’s what the Bible says, I think. The Bible is the Word, and the word is good.
Alas, no they haven't, but ever since he died he has been voting a straight democrat ticket.
Where’s her asp?
Bill Clinton says “I’d hit it”.
That was supposedly the charm Ann Boleyn (plain, plain!) exerted over poor Henry VIII.
But she's the one who lost her head.
But we still do not know that for sure. Either way...my point was not who they were...my point was to me...that they were human beings and flesh and blood. Digging them up for financial gain is still sacriligeous to me.
So there’s no truth to the rumor he fathered Fivetinbras ?
Those archeologists better watch their asp.
“So there’s no truth to the rumor he fathered Fivetinbras ?”
You know, I don’t know what his son’s name was, or if he had one.
Knowing Norwegians, his son was probably called something like Ingeborg Trygvesdatter Fortinbrasen.
Henry VIII wasn’t exactly a tough sale.
Are you ptolemy that they could be in grave danger?!?!?
I Thoth the Hathor Shu Isis a Nut.
So then there wouldn’t be a grandson named Sixtinbras ?
Abydos the Bes pun I’ve ever seen in an Egyptian thread.
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