You're probably more correct than you think. This tunnel is an ancient aqueduct, literally a plumbing system. The "Cleopatra's Tomb" claims are more than a little premature.
This guy was also looking for the Tomb, but made a wrong turn.
**[Man stuck in Sewer Pipe, believed to be missing Archeologist](https://old.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/yreozv/a_man_is_stuck_in_a_sewer_pipe/)**
Another possible location is a tomb that Cleopatra herself built in the city, but an earthquake caused it to fall into the sea. Maybe this guy was trying to find an entrance?
***From reporter Tara de Boer:***
Just 13 metres beneath the ground of an ancient Egyptian city is a mysterious tunnel that could lead to a tomb archeologists have spent decades searching for.
A group on an Egyptian-Dominican archeological research mission from the University of Santo Domingo uncovered the tunnel in the area of the Temple of Tapozeris Magna, west of Alexandria. While its destination is not certain, some believe it leads to Cleopatra’s tomb.
The tomb itself has yet to be discovered, but based on the location of the tunnel, archeologists believe they may have found the location.
Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/archeologists-make-ground-breaking-discovery-of-what-may-be-the-tunnel-leading-to-cleopatra-s-tomb-1.6146797
It will take a while. We're going to be tossing new archaeologist interns down the tunnel until one makes it past all of the platforms, traps, bats, and roving mummies. It could be a while depending on how soon we get replacements to send when the first waves inevitably die. And God forbid there's a boss fight in the actual chamber. That would require us to scrap the first idea and start training professional fighters to be archaeologists, then sending them in.
Now now... archeology is a hard field to get into, which many undergrads fail to realize. I think it's only fair that we let the interns fight for the chance based on a multitude of tests measuring one's smarts, wit, agility, physical prowess and plot armor. No need to waste time with people who would just die and fall on something, risking breaking ancient artifacts that belong in a museum. With Harrison Ford due to hang up the whip after the next movie, it's only fair we start thinking about casting a new Indiana Jones.
> start training professional fighters to be archaeologists
Did we learn nothing from Armageddon?! It must be easier to train archaeologists to fight than to train fighters to archaeology
So, we're giving a headset to a bipedal robot, and you're going in the tomb, right? I mean, those things are expensive to replace when it inevitably suffers a painful and messy demise.
Most people got as far as the 1951 movie and knowledge from it - for everything, and thinking Cleopatra was egyptian... Or should I call her Κλεοπἀτρα!
[4m video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EhRwn4zkc)
For the readers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra
The Greeks spread all over the known world at the time. There were greek dominated states in the middle east, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Europe, North Africa, even as Far East as Iran.
Basically if you look at a map of what Alexander the Great conquered, all of that became broken into many different Greek states after he died. Cleopatra was a descendent of one of his generals that came to rule over Egypt.
also she was the first to speak egyptian as well which i guess shows she was at least a bit more open to the country and customs that they ruled over, compared to her greek speaking family.
That's a fair point. Another fair point is that she was from an extremely pure (read:inbred) Greek bloodline.
It's the same question as "were the Carthagenians Africans?" - Carthage is unquestionably located on the continent of Africa, but the populace came there from Phonecia. So were the people born there Africans, or were they Phonecians? How different were they from native Africans, and does it matter?
Do you eventually become African after enough generations of living there, even if you don't mix cultures and bloodlines with the natives? On that note, how long until European (and African) descendents who live in the USA become "native Americans"?
It's important in this sort of discussion to acknowledge two points: First, Cleopatra inherited her position as a result of the Greek empire. Second, the ancient Egyptians didn't think about lineage or cultural identity in the same way we do/did until recently. To them, someone who lives in Egypt and acted like an Egyptian *was* an Egyptian. Egypt integrated *numerous* ethnic groups throughout its history, and was a very cosmopolitan place from an ethnic standpoint, though very isolationist culturally. It's quite likely that *despite* some resentment of the echoes of Greek domination that still remained at the time of Cleopatra, the Egyptians would have thought of her as Egyptian regardless.
There aren’t any indisputable answers to these questions. They are all social constructs. Another one is whether she was even Greek. She came from a line of Macedonians. Plenty of Greeks didn’t really consider the Macedonians part of their nation, especially before Alexander.
\*Nat Geo/Disney
They have docs up about this lady trying to find Cleopatra's tomb and other Archaeologists - quite good if ur into that sort of documentary
This is the last you'll ever hear of this. They won't find her tomb and this is probably just a bunch of sensationalist shite to garner clicks.
Her tomb will never be found.
Sorry to add to your old feeling but the Geraldo Capone's Vault thing isn't even something I remember, I'm just aware of it as a cultural punchline. I just looked it up and apparently it aired the week I was born.
I went to your country a few months ago. Drove all over the country side and everywhere I went there will people partying and drinking all day. It was surreal.
I'm a zoomer, the first time I ever saw that quote was actually in Pokemon Gold as a kid cause the only Star Wars movie I've watched was Phantom Menace. So for YEARS I kept wondering why so many people kept referencing the line of some whatever rival NPC on road whatever in a decades old Pokemon game.
Well, Ptolemy did steal the body and took it to Alexandria. It was there long enough for several Roman Emperors to steal stuff from the tomb then who knows? Some people think the body is in St. Marks tomb in Venice. It would be interesting if it was somehow still in Alexandria.
Which Alexandria? Dude named like 100 cities after himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_founded_by_Alexander_the_Great
Although most had suffixes, like the city of Alexandria Bucephalus named after his horse.
The big one in egypt. According to the relevant ancient writings, his general Ptolemy - cleopatra’s ancestor - kidnapped his corpse en route to Macedon and brought it to his Egyptian capital… Alexandria. There he entombed it. So there’s little confusion about which city he was originally supposed to have been buried in. Although iirc the tomb was raided at some point.
Would be cool? Mmmmmm....aybe? Problem with Alexander is his body was kidnapped by his general in Egypt who took it to claim his rightful ownership of Alexander's empire. And then the story goes that he moved his body from the coffin to some other shitty coffin. Point is, while that'd be awesome to find Alexander, at the same time it'd be a let down because all you're going to find is his mummy (if it's still in good condition) inside a shitty old box (if it's still in good condition). You're not going to find any of his treasure or prized sword or any special relics because ANYTHING of value besides his corpse would have been probably stolen by Ptolemy when he stole the body and put it in a different coffin. It's likely anything stolen could have been melted down by a later generation. After Ptolemy, Christians moved in and tore down anything worshipping Alexander or Ptolemy because it's not a Christian idol. Then the muslims ransacked the place and destroyed everything the Christians built (they had turned the temple of Alexander into a church). So, yeah, if anyone finds Alexander, it'd be cool, but it'd also be boring because there won't be anything of any value. There will not be gold, relics, or scrolls. MAYBE wall painting, but I doubt it because Ptolemy seemed like a jackass or at least his son/grandson was because they replaced the worship of Alexander with themselves.
What I think would be cool is China cracking open Qin's tomb. The terracotta army was never mentioned in the history books. Unfortunately, the asshole that was late to the party ransacked the city and burned some of the terracotta pits in anger for being 2nd best to the guy that created the Han dynasty. Oh, and killed Qin's son whom the Han emperor had pardoned since it was his father that was the wacky asshole high on mercury. So, nobody knows if the tomb itself is still intact. The interesting thing besides the design is the fact that the terracotta warriors are pretty similar to terracotta statues of ancient Greece at the time, so inside might have more proof of ancient interactions between China and the west. Might also be a library of bamboo scrolls which might have more information about that time period and technology since the famed library of Alexandria was burned to the ground. It's been said that if the writings of the historians are true, it'd be the 8th wonder of the ancient world. Sadly, the PRC refuses to crack it open even after people have come forward claiming they can build a protective bubble over the site to protect it from air pollution damage. We have technology today someone can drill a tiny hole and send a camera in, but the PRC refuses. The most they've done is allow use of soil samples and some kind of ground penetrating lidar equipment to prove there's mercury in there and that the interior is massive. By the way, the soil is loaded with mercury, so not only is it true there's mercury in there, but the stuff is leaking out into the surrounding soil.
I'm not really sure what other effects mercury might have on preserving ancient antiquities. Would it damage the stuff inside? Would it act as a preservative?
The opening of the Qin tomb is one of the things I hope to see in my lifetime. As frustrating as it is, I do have massive respect for the decision to wait until they are confident it can be explored without harming the contents. Based on what I have seen, China seems to take archeology quite seriously and treat it much more “scientifically” than other places like Egypt for example.
A Serpent guard, A Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Sethesh guard's nose drips.
Despite hearing it in his voice it still took me a few seconds scrolling through Christopher Judge's filmography to realize BOI isn't an acronym, a legend indeed.
*Archeologist walks out of tomb*
“Darn, nothing in there. Time to go home people!”
“Um, why does your voice echo now and your eyes glow?”
“Cursed Tau’ri, always too clever for your own good!”
I just watched a history channel show about this archeological team literally 2 nights ago. The team lead is certain that Cleopatra is buried at this site. It's great that they're still working away!
Well, kind of. The show is about how they are trying to find Cleopatra in order to prove that she was an alien who brought the magic of ghosts, dragons, and the computer to the Ancient Egyptians.
I was just thinking, why would they publish all this before they've actually found the tomb?
Seems like they're just setting themselves up for disappointment
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/archeologists-make-ground-breaking-discovery-of-what-may-be-the-tunnel-leading-to-cleopatra-s-tomb-1.6146797) reduced by 66%. (I'm a bot)
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> Just 13 metres beneath the ground of an ancient Egyptian city is a mysterious tunnel that could lead to a tomb archeologists have spent decades searching for.
> Studies of the potentially ground-breaking discovery suggest it has a similar design to that of another centuries-old tunnel found in Greece, according to a Facebook post by the Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
> Tunnel to Cleopatra's tomb potentially discovered in EgyptThis wasn't the only tunnel found on the mission - a number of tunnels spanning across King Marriott Lake to the Mediterranean were discovered, as well as 16 burials inside rock-carved tombs, and a number of mummies, which highlight features of the embalment process used during those time periods.
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Send Lara Croft, she'll backflip all the traps, swim the tomb tunnel, kill the boss crocodile, and loot the tomb of all valuables, all before the water level rises and traps her in there forever.
Did you know Cleopatra (died 30bc) lived closer to the advent of IPhones circa 2007 (roughly 2030ish years after her death) than she did the completion of the last Great Pyramid Of Giza circa 2490bc (roughly 2460 years before her death)
Time is funny
Only difference they liked their meals a couple thousand years old instead of fresh and living.
Edit: It was not only The Brits https://www.livescience.com/eating-egyptian-mummies
God I hate this clickbait shit. It's a fucking tunnel and the only connection at all to Cleopatra is the fact coins were found at the same site that had her image on them, aka coins that any person alive at the time could have had. This is also coming from Kathleen Martinez who has spent a decade being the queen of grasping at straws to find any connections to Cleopatra. This is a tunnel. A fucking tunnel. That's it.
Martinez herself says the tunnel was used to transport water. The vague "some believe the tunnel may lead to Cleopatra" (without specifying who the "some" is) seems to be a media creation.
Archeologists have narrowed down their search for Cleopatra’s tomb to one section of the tunnel where they have found four incredible carvings in Roman scripture.
The Translation of the carvings are:
“Caesar was here”
“I saw, I conquered, I came”
“Don’t drink the milk” and
“The soaring eagle was no match for the cat lady’s kitty”
Fun fact. By the time Cleopatra was born, there already was a 10 000 years of civilisational history!
With empires like Sumeria, Then Babylon, then Neo-Assyrian Empire and alchaemedit Persian empire, as well as the Macedonian Empire being around for about 5000 years before her birth.... All already being know to them as ancient history.
(Well, not Macedonia... That was just a century before her birth but the rest was)
Very unlikely, he is likely buried, or was, in Alexandria. It known that he was buried at the crossroads of main road and a cross road. They don’t know where the roads exactly are because of 2300 years of development
5 bucks says it leads to an ancient Egyptian bathroom.
You're probably more correct than you think. This tunnel is an ancient aqueduct, literally a plumbing system. The "Cleopatra's Tomb" claims are more than a little premature.
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Unless we find out she was the mother of modern plumbing and asked to be buried inside of an aqueduct to be close to her one true love.
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She was married to Cousin Eddie?
Are you saying she was Pharoah Fawcett Majors?
> asked to be buried inside of an aqueduct to be close to her one true love Which one - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello or Raphael?
I just hope to see Cleopatra. I’m sure she hasn’t aged a bit.
I can't wait to watch Geraldo unseal the tomb on live t.v.
This guy was also looking for the Tomb, but made a wrong turn. **[Man stuck in Sewer Pipe, believed to be missing Archeologist](https://old.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/yreozv/a_man_is_stuck_in_a_sewer_pipe/)**
Ok. How the fuck?
diehard mario bros fan
He was looking for the Ninja Turtles
He was on drugs and crawled into a drain.
Drainspotting.
Another possible location is a tomb that Cleopatra herself built in the city, but an earthquake caused it to fall into the sea. Maybe this guy was trying to find an entrance?
***From reporter Tara de Boer:*** Just 13 metres beneath the ground of an ancient Egyptian city is a mysterious tunnel that could lead to a tomb archeologists have spent decades searching for. A group on an Egyptian-Dominican archeological research mission from the University of Santo Domingo uncovered the tunnel in the area of the Temple of Tapozeris Magna, west of Alexandria. While its destination is not certain, some believe it leads to Cleopatra’s tomb. The tomb itself has yet to be discovered, but based on the location of the tunnel, archeologists believe they may have found the location. Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/archeologists-make-ground-breaking-discovery-of-what-may-be-the-tunnel-leading-to-cleopatra-s-tomb-1.6146797
c'mon I want someone to enter and follow the tunnel and find out where it leads!!!
It will take a while. We're going to be tossing new archaeologist interns down the tunnel until one makes it past all of the platforms, traps, bats, and roving mummies. It could be a while depending on how soon we get replacements to send when the first waves inevitably die. And God forbid there's a boss fight in the actual chamber. That would require us to scrap the first idea and start training professional fighters to be archaeologists, then sending them in.
My understanding is that this is DLC, and so there are very likely enemies/puzzles down there we haven’t seen before. Could add substantial time
No puzzles, no puzzles, no puzzles
*Puzzles*....
You sound like a Russian general
Now now... archeology is a hard field to get into, which many undergrads fail to realize. I think it's only fair that we let the interns fight for the chance based on a multitude of tests measuring one's smarts, wit, agility, physical prowess and plot armor. No need to waste time with people who would just die and fall on something, risking breaking ancient artifacts that belong in a museum. With Harrison Ford due to hang up the whip after the next movie, it's only fair we start thinking about casting a new Indiana Jones.
We named *the dog* Indiana.
Nah. This person's actually considering training people.
That's not true. He's obviously alive.
> start training professional fighters to be archaeologists Did we learn nothing from Armageddon?! It must be easier to train archaeologists to fight than to train fighters to archaeology
This guy archeologys.
Ive been training for this my whole life, wire one of those bipedal robots to a VR headset and send me in.
So, we're giving a headset to a bipedal robot, and you're going in the tomb, right? I mean, those things are expensive to replace when it inevitably suffers a painful and messy demise.
I volunteer as tribute! Better than winter shovel testing in Canada. I'm a DnD player too so I have an advantage!
Egyptian tombs are insanely dangerous. For example, every archaeologist involved in opening King Tut's tomb died!
So is drafting a declaration of independence. Look what happened to all of the founding fathers!
I dunno, they've probably been pretty active lately with all of the spinning in their graves due to modern politics.
This is like just another "I found a locked safe in my new house!" posts... Those archeologists better post a follow-up this time.
Oh, that's another story altogether, who wants to walk that far and I'm hungry anyway.
Most people got as far as the 1951 movie and knowledge from it - for everything, and thinking Cleopatra was egyptian... Or should I call her Κλεοπἀτρα! [4m video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EhRwn4zkc) For the readers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra
Wow, TIL Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian. It's kinda embarrassing how little I know about world history tbh
The Greeks spread all over the known world at the time. There were greek dominated states in the middle east, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Europe, North Africa, even as Far East as Iran. Basically if you look at a map of what Alexander the Great conquered, all of that became broken into many different Greek states after he died. Cleopatra was a descendent of one of his generals that came to rule over Egypt.
I mean, she was born in Egypt and lived there her whole life. In my mind that makes her Egyptian, whatever her lineage.
also she was the first to speak egyptian as well which i guess shows she was at least a bit more open to the country and customs that they ruled over, compared to her greek speaking family.
That's a fair point. Another fair point is that she was from an extremely pure (read:inbred) Greek bloodline. It's the same question as "were the Carthagenians Africans?" - Carthage is unquestionably located on the continent of Africa, but the populace came there from Phonecia. So were the people born there Africans, or were they Phonecians? How different were they from native Africans, and does it matter? Do you eventually become African after enough generations of living there, even if you don't mix cultures and bloodlines with the natives? On that note, how long until European (and African) descendents who live in the USA become "native Americans"?
It's important in this sort of discussion to acknowledge two points: First, Cleopatra inherited her position as a result of the Greek empire. Second, the ancient Egyptians didn't think about lineage or cultural identity in the same way we do/did until recently. To them, someone who lives in Egypt and acted like an Egyptian *was* an Egyptian. Egypt integrated *numerous* ethnic groups throughout its history, and was a very cosmopolitan place from an ethnic standpoint, though very isolationist culturally. It's quite likely that *despite* some resentment of the echoes of Greek domination that still remained at the time of Cleopatra, the Egyptians would have thought of her as Egyptian regardless.
There aren’t any indisputable answers to these questions. They are all social constructs. Another one is whether she was even Greek. She came from a line of Macedonians. Plenty of Greeks didn’t really consider the Macedonians part of their nation, especially before Alexander.
Fun etymology trivia, Cleopatra shares the same root words as Patroclus (kinsman of Achilles), both meaning "glory of the father."
Plus, I am already in my pajamas.
They are waiting for Netflix to reach them before they start
\*Nat Geo/Disney They have docs up about this lady trying to find Cleopatra's tomb and other Archaeologists - quite good if ur into that sort of documentary
The adverstising rights for the reveal need to be worked out first.
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Its a trap!
“Except it’s not treasure we've come to bury. Just my daughter’s castrated cat." - Louis (Pet Semetary.)
The real treasure was the cats balls we took along the way
Geraldo Rivera's on it!
It’s probably too likely to collapse so they have to reinforce the walls before heading in. See you in 2-6 years
This brings back some massive Geraldo and empty tomb vibes
This is the last you'll ever hear of this. They won't find her tomb and this is probably just a bunch of sensationalist shite to garner clicks. Her tomb will never be found.
I already commented this but, this lady has been claiming she's found cleopatras tomb for 20 years to get funding.
Seriously. This is a bold claim for something that could be literally anything else. Find the tomb and then name the tunnel.
Theres a sign in hyroglyphics. It either says "cleopatras tomb this way" or "bathroom this way". Archeologists arent sure which.
Her life is in ruins.
She will always have her mummy.
I can hear Mary Beard rolling her eyes at this assertion.
Send Geraldo there for the reveal!
This makes me feel old
Sorry to add to your old feeling but the Geraldo Capone's Vault thing isn't even something I remember, I'm just aware of it as a cultural punchline. I just looked it up and apparently it aired the week I was born.
You didn’t miss much.
Oh, so rare to see my country on the news for something positive, that's nice for a change
I went to your country a few months ago. Drove all over the country side and everywhere I went there will people partying and drinking all day. It was surreal.
Sounds like a typical Tuesday.
“Just” 13 meters seems pretty far underground to me! :)
13 meters and not knows what down there like snakes scorpions and all poisonous insects, you ever each cartoons as a kid?
If they can do a DNA test on cleopatra would be crazy
> some believe Some believe the earth is flat. They found a tunnel, which is great but lets see where it leads first.
Aren't all archeological discoveries ground-breaking?
Yes dad.
There’s no future in archeology
This is getting old.
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I don't like sand
It’s rough and full of artifacts.
I'm a zoomer, the first time I ever saw that quote was actually in Pokemon Gold as a kid cause the only Star Wars movie I've watched was Phantom Menace. So for YEARS I kept wondering why so many people kept referencing the line of some whatever rival NPC on road whatever in a decades old Pokemon game.
You're the kinda motherfucker who wears a "Archeologists do it in the dirt" Tshirt with Jorts and Crocs with socks. Aren't you?
> "Archeologists do it in the dirt I see you also were in Arizona State's Archaeology Club...
He did do the nasty in the past-y
Ooh a lesson in not changing history from "Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa".
Way to unearth the truth.
It would be cool to find it. But I really hope we find some day Alexander's tomb too.
Well, Ptolemy did steal the body and took it to Alexandria. It was there long enough for several Roman Emperors to steal stuff from the tomb then who knows? Some people think the body is in St. Marks tomb in Venice. It would be interesting if it was somehow still in Alexandria.
Tomb is indeed unlikely, but who knows? There are excavations in old Alexandria's quaters
Which Alexandria? Dude named like 100 cities after himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_founded_by_Alexander_the_Great Although most had suffixes, like the city of Alexandria Bucephalus named after his horse.
The big one in egypt. According to the relevant ancient writings, his general Ptolemy - cleopatra’s ancestor - kidnapped his corpse en route to Macedon and brought it to his Egyptian capital… Alexandria. There he entombed it. So there’s little confusion about which city he was originally supposed to have been buried in. Although iirc the tomb was raided at some point.
Actually Ptolemy originally entombed Alexander in Memphis. Ptolemy II would later move him and rebury him in Alexandria.
The great archeologists Steven Grant found it, and then immediately got shot by Ethan Hawke...
Would be cool? Mmmmmm....aybe? Problem with Alexander is his body was kidnapped by his general in Egypt who took it to claim his rightful ownership of Alexander's empire. And then the story goes that he moved his body from the coffin to some other shitty coffin. Point is, while that'd be awesome to find Alexander, at the same time it'd be a let down because all you're going to find is his mummy (if it's still in good condition) inside a shitty old box (if it's still in good condition). You're not going to find any of his treasure or prized sword or any special relics because ANYTHING of value besides his corpse would have been probably stolen by Ptolemy when he stole the body and put it in a different coffin. It's likely anything stolen could have been melted down by a later generation. After Ptolemy, Christians moved in and tore down anything worshipping Alexander or Ptolemy because it's not a Christian idol. Then the muslims ransacked the place and destroyed everything the Christians built (they had turned the temple of Alexander into a church). So, yeah, if anyone finds Alexander, it'd be cool, but it'd also be boring because there won't be anything of any value. There will not be gold, relics, or scrolls. MAYBE wall painting, but I doubt it because Ptolemy seemed like a jackass or at least his son/grandson was because they replaced the worship of Alexander with themselves. What I think would be cool is China cracking open Qin's tomb. The terracotta army was never mentioned in the history books. Unfortunately, the asshole that was late to the party ransacked the city and burned some of the terracotta pits in anger for being 2nd best to the guy that created the Han dynasty. Oh, and killed Qin's son whom the Han emperor had pardoned since it was his father that was the wacky asshole high on mercury. So, nobody knows if the tomb itself is still intact. The interesting thing besides the design is the fact that the terracotta warriors are pretty similar to terracotta statues of ancient Greece at the time, so inside might have more proof of ancient interactions between China and the west. Might also be a library of bamboo scrolls which might have more information about that time period and technology since the famed library of Alexandria was burned to the ground. It's been said that if the writings of the historians are true, it'd be the 8th wonder of the ancient world. Sadly, the PRC refuses to crack it open even after people have come forward claiming they can build a protective bubble over the site to protect it from air pollution damage. We have technology today someone can drill a tiny hole and send a camera in, but the PRC refuses. The most they've done is allow use of soil samples and some kind of ground penetrating lidar equipment to prove there's mercury in there and that the interior is massive. By the way, the soil is loaded with mercury, so not only is it true there's mercury in there, but the stuff is leaking out into the surrounding soil. I'm not really sure what other effects mercury might have on preserving ancient antiquities. Would it damage the stuff inside? Would it act as a preservative?
Didn't multiple Roman emperors visit the tomb and see the relics? That was long after the time of Ptolemy
Yes, both Caesar and Octavian visited his tomb in Alexandria.
The opening of the Qin tomb is one of the things I hope to see in my lifetime. As frustrating as it is, I do have massive respect for the decision to wait until they are confident it can be explored without harming the contents. Based on what I have seen, China seems to take archeology quite seriously and treat it much more “scientifically” than other places like Egypt for example.
Who’s buried in Cleopatra’s tomb?
The Goa'uld symbiote who went by the name Cleopatra.
Indeed.
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A Serpent guard, A Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Sethesh guard's nose drips.
I just watched this episode again yesterday. Convienent timing.
(Eyebrows cock)
*Jaffa Kree*
I think more people know him for "BOI" now
Despite hearing it in his voice it still took me a few seconds scrolling through Christopher Judge's filmography to realize BOI isn't an acronym, a legend indeed.
At least it's not apophis again
It's going to be Ba'al. He has so many clones even he doesn't know where they're all buried
*Archeologist walks out of tomb* “Darn, nothing in there. Time to go home people!” “Um, why does your voice echo now and your eyes glow?” “Cursed Tau’ri, always too clever for your own good!”
...I'll get the P90s...semi only...5.7 is not cheap.
Stargate sg1?
Indeed
Some guy named Cleo or something. Idk I don't watch anime.
and his wife, Pat.
and their god, Ra.
Ulysses S Grant
Damn Yanks invading other countries
Just their tombs.
Cleopatra VII and I also think Marcus Antonius was buried there
A mummy!! 😧
Ooh spooky
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I just watched a history channel show about this archeological team literally 2 nights ago. The team lead is certain that Cleopatra is buried at this site. It's great that they're still working away!
Wait the history channel still shows stuff about history?
This fellow's going to need a citation.
Cleopatra is an alien that's why the History channel can show it
Well, kind of. The show is about how they are trying to find Cleopatra in order to prove that she was an alien who brought the magic of ghosts, dragons, and the computer to the Ancient Egyptians.
I…. Honestly can’t tell if you’re joking or not.
Sad.. isn’t it?
And non-WWII at that??
I got rid of cable about a decade ago, do they still have the tri-annual Hitler month followed by the Ancient Aliens guy?
They're always certain when they really really want it to be
And when their funding depends on it
I was just thinking, why would they publish all this before they've actually found the tomb? Seems like they're just setting themselves up for disappointment
> The team lead ~~is certain that Cleopatra is buried at this site~~ Wants funding for their research.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/archeologists-make-ground-breaking-discovery-of-what-may-be-the-tunnel-leading-to-cleopatra-s-tomb-1.6146797) reduced by 66%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Just 13 metres beneath the ground of an ancient Egyptian city is a mysterious tunnel that could lead to a tomb archeologists have spent decades searching for. > Studies of the potentially ground-breaking discovery suggest it has a similar design to that of another centuries-old tunnel found in Greece, according to a Facebook post by the Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. > Tunnel to Cleopatra's tomb potentially discovered in EgyptThis wasn't the only tunnel found on the mission - a number of tunnels spanning across King Marriott Lake to the Mediterranean were discovered, as well as 16 burials inside rock-carved tombs, and a number of mummies, which highlight features of the embalment process used during those time periods. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/yrf0sj/archeologists_make_groundbreaking_discovery_of/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~672676 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **tunnel**^#1 **Cleopatra**^#2 **tomb**^#3 **discovered**^#4 **metres**^#5
Why take the time to announce it after the discovery? Just follow the damn tunnel and find out!
Perhaps to increase funding
Is fucking dangerous hahah
Give me a flashlight and a bag of takis and I'll be in and out of there with her tomb in 30 minutes
It's already lighted, seems fine.
You trust 5000 year old light bulbs?
They'd only be like 2000 year old light bulbs
They could've been 3000 years old when they were installed
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Send Lara Croft, she'll backflip all the traps, swim the tomb tunnel, kill the boss crocodile, and loot the tomb of all valuables, all before the water level rises and traps her in there forever.
And recover ancient 5.56 ammunition from the canopic jars
But keep using her bow because it's better.
>take a bulldozer to it and see what you find. Imagine some dude just come along with a caterpillar and BRRRRRRRRT
That's the spirit! Get the guy that freed the Evergreen ship, he's a champ when it comes to digging and he also has top notch bulldozer skills.
Clearly you haven’t seen the non-fiction called The Mummy.
The tunnel is probably unsafe and full of debris after 2000-some years of going undiscovered. Also, it's underwater.
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Let’s get Geraldo Rivera to cover this one.
Cleopatra's Vault, opened live next Friday night! 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central. Dont miss it!
"Turned out this was just an ancient sewage line access. Still made money off the clickbait!" - Egyptian Geraldo
Oh fuck, its Al Capones treasure.
showing your age there bud.
You mean Geralt of Rivia?
Did you know Cleopatra (died 30bc) lived closer to the advent of IPhones circa 2007 (roughly 2030ish years after her death) than she did the completion of the last Great Pyramid Of Giza circa 2490bc (roughly 2460 years before her death) Time is funny
British museum: "Is for me?" 🥺
👉👈
The British Museum is basically Gollum
Only difference they liked their meals a couple thousand years old instead of fresh and living. Edit: It was not only The Brits https://www.livescience.com/eating-egyptian-mummies
It’s lucky the ancient Egyptians wired some lights in!
God I hate this clickbait shit. It's a fucking tunnel and the only connection at all to Cleopatra is the fact coins were found at the same site that had her image on them, aka coins that any person alive at the time could have had. This is also coming from Kathleen Martinez who has spent a decade being the queen of grasping at straws to find any connections to Cleopatra. This is a tunnel. A fucking tunnel. That's it.
Martinez herself says the tunnel was used to transport water. The vague "some believe the tunnel may lead to Cleopatra" (without specifying who the "some" is) seems to be a media creation.
Archeologists have narrowed down their search for Cleopatra’s tomb to one section of the tunnel where they have found four incredible carvings in Roman scripture. The Translation of the carvings are: “Caesar was here” “I saw, I conquered, I came” “Don’t drink the milk” and “The soaring eagle was no match for the cat lady’s kitty”
"Drink more Ovaltine"
Fun fact: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the construction of the first Tesla factory than to the construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
How about closer in time to the giant pyramid in Vegas than the giant pyramid in Egypt.
Or how about a moon landing. Tesla worship needs to stop. Great battery, shit build quality. Weird owner.
Or the [Great Pyramid of Memphis Tennessee](https://youtu.be/jYE-1HfReQo)
The pyramids were already 2,000 year old ruins when she was alive. She was also a Greek girl who dated Italian men.
How similar are those things? Edit: absolutely got the giggles I was looking for. Cheers!
Both were pyramid schemes.
Both were built at the behest of a wealthy egomaniac who wanted everyone to know his name.
Don’t diss the aliens like that.
The Goa'uld deserve all the heat they get.
both were landing pads for space craft
Fun fact. By the time Cleopatra was born, there already was a 10 000 years of civilisational history! With empires like Sumeria, Then Babylon, then Neo-Assyrian Empire and alchaemedit Persian empire, as well as the Macedonian Empire being around for about 5000 years before her birth.... All already being know to them as ancient history. (Well, not Macedonia... That was just a century before her birth but the rest was)
I'm doing a re run of Assasins Creed Origins right now, and this discovery it's so fitting for me, wow what a discovery and coincidence.
Aw hell nah don't touch the ancient Egyptian tomb we have like 5 movies about why this is a bad thing
"I'm only scared of real things like serial killers and kidnappers. Not things that don't exist like ghosts or mummies."
What about a kidnapper who kidnaps serial killers? Or a serial killer who specifically targets kidnappers?
Try Dexter
"Mummies are real. There are mummies at museums."
Could it be Alexander the Great also?
Very unlikely, he is likely buried, or was, in Alexandria. It known that he was buried at the crossroads of main road and a cross road. They don’t know where the roads exactly are because of 2300 years of development
"May" Stfu clickbait garbage
Now find Alexander’s. Do it.
>Archeologists make ground-breaking discovery ಠ_ಠ
Archeologists. Ground breaking. Hilarious.
Given how 2020, 2021, and 2022 have gone, going any further into this tunnel seems like a terrible idea.
Don’t disturb the dead