by Cairo – Say archaeologists Taposiris Magna Temple Near the Egyptian northern coastal town of Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiques announced the discovery in the past week and expanded what is known about the temple complex, about 30 miles west of Alexandria, which expires more than 2,000 years ago for Ptolemean time.
The Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission, led by Dr. Kathleen Martinez from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, together with Dr. Robert Ballard, who localized the Titani shipping wreck in 1985, carried out geological and archaeological studies by the coastal areas through the temples.
In cooperation with Dr. Larry Mayer from the University of New Hampshire and the Egyptian Marine hydrography department (EnHD) and the Egyptian Department of Underwater Antiques, this team revealed the evidence of an old, underconged harbor.
The ancient Taposiris Magna Temple, west of the northern coastal city of Egypt Alexandria, can be seen in the background when a worker leads to a tunnel who was discovered, which was discovered that he once connected the temple with an old, long-scushed harbor. / Credit: Dr. Kathleen Martinez
Martinez told CBS News that the team, after mapping the sea floor with state-of-the-art Sonar technologies and then to simulate software to simulate the pre-subscription conditions, unveiled a submerged old coastal coast, which was about 2.5 miles from the current coast from the current coast, including one place with an old inner port.
Her research also showed an expansion of a tunnel that combined the temple, the remains of which are about half a mile from the current coast from the old port. The tunnel stretched to an area known as the “Salam 5”, in which divers basalt base fragments were found similar to those of statues within the sanctuary.
The team also found several stone and metal anchors of different shapes and sizes scattered near the reef, together with numerous broken amphorae, which were recovered from the sunken harbor, all of which come with the Ptolemaken time.
Martinez told CBS News that together with the discovery of seven waves that are connected to an underground passage near the sanctuary of Taposiris Magna and are associated with other underground structures and some contemporary buildings before the sanctuary, the findings strongly point out that Taposiris Magna acted as active Mariti zone.
“The development of peripheral ports in the direction of the determination of the central in Alexandria would be a matter of necessity. Taposiris Magna would be part of the network of peripheral port cities, access to Egypt from the West and in the distribution of the Egyptian products via the Mediterranean,” she said.
Divers, with the Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission, an anchor on the sea floor in front of Egypt’s northern Mediterranean coast, in a place that was assumed that he was a port more than 2,000 years ago. / Credit: Dr. Kathleen Martinez
Since no old texts refer to a port in Taposiris Magna, the results of research represent a significant contribution to the new knowledge and open a completely new chapter in the history of the website, said Martinez.
The search for Cleopatra’s grave
But while she discovered the port, she is looking for something else. Like many other archaeologists, Martinez wants to find the grave of the last queen of Egypt. Cleopatra VIIThe approximately 51 BC Chr. – 30 BC BC ruled
While many of their contemporaries in the field have concentrated their hunt for Cleopatra’s grave under the ruins of Lange Alexandrias Royal QuarterMartinez has had the visor in Taposiris Magna in the past 20 years.
“10 years earlier, I dedicated to studying Cleopatra’s life and death,” said Martinez.
The old queen allied with the Roman general Mark Antony after Julius Caesar’s death to see Caesar’s legacy Octavian (or Octavius) together.
When they were defeated in the Battle of Actium, they fled to Egypt. Octavius followed her and in 30 BC.
However, Martinez believes that the grave is actually located in Taposiris Magna, about 30 miles further southwest of the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. She sees it “as” the perfect last rest area for Queen Cleopatra “.
When she started the project, Martinez presented Egyptian officials her hypothesis.
“Of course they didn’t believe me,” she told CBS News.
She said she predicted that she would find a necropolis on site, probably from Cleopatra.
“We did it,” she told CBS News. “We have already discovered and excavated 21 catacombs. We have a projection that we have at least 20 or 25 more … We have more than 600 human remains and more than 30 mummies … And we will discover the grave [of Cleopatra]. “
Dr. Kathleen Martinez (left) and other archaeologists are working to keep the remains in the necropolis of the Taposiris Magna temple near Alexandria in northern Egypt. / Credit: Kind permission from Dr. Kathleen Martinez
There are archaeologists who do not agree with Martinez and stand by the theory that Cleopatra’s grave is located in the Royal Quartier in the center of the old Alexandria. But it is unmoved.
“It is not there because the Romans hated Queen Cleopatra. And they desperately wanted to bring them to Rome and parade them,” Martinez told CBS News. “Octavius would have done something to bring Cleopatra to Rome and prevent them in chains and maybe give her the most terrible death that the Romans could add.”
“But Cleopatra didn’t want to go to Rome and she tried to find a way to escape this fate and she wanted to stay in Egypt.”
Martinez said that the new Roman emperor would have taken her alive or brought her remains in Rome, so that she had to secure a place where her remains could not easily discover, of which she believed that she would have made the royal quarter a very unlikely choice.
Taposiris Magna was built as a temple that was dedicated to the goddess Isis, and Cleopatra said, Martinez, “always presented itself as new ISIS.”
She explained that the place had a strong religious context and, in contrast to the royal quarters, not under the control of the Romans.
“She outwitted the Romans,” said Martinez.
Martinez said CBS News that the team will continue to explore the port site for about a week, and it will take at least another two months.
Dr. Kathleen Martinez with the Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission keeps up with a phone that shows an underwater picture of the first anchor on the sea floor at the point of the concern of the mission that it is an old port in front of Egyptian northern Mediterranean coast. / Credit: Dr. Kathleen Martinez
“This is the first time that we will actually dig out under water. It will be very exciting,” she said, adding that no one is known that it is known that it has ever been dipped on the website. “We don’t know what we will discover there because this is the start of the search.”
“It’s a mystery. There was very little information about this location,” she said. “The site itself sometimes leads it in a certain direction.”
For two millennia, Cleopatra has been successful in hiding the location of their remains, not only in front of the Romans, but also in front of archaeologists.
Martinez has not served to focus on the search for Cleopatra for almost three decades.
“Well, it’s a 2,000 -year -old puzzle and they put together the parts,” she told CBS News and added that “she is 100% convinced that it is a matter of time” before her work finally pays.
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