Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb followed Kathleen Martinez, criminal lawyer turned maverick archaeologist, as she searches for Cleopatra’s lost tomb. Why did Kathleen decide to become an ...

History’s most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp.

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts at the Taposiris Magna temple complex near Alexandria, Egypt, where some researchers believe the tomb of Cleopatra VII is located. Among the findings ...

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Ahmed Shawkat is a CBS News producer based in Cairo. He has worked for CBS News since 2016, prior to which he worked with several European networks including TVE, ZDF, SVT and Yle. The ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient hidden tunnel beneath a temple that they hope leads to the long-lost tomb of Queen Cleopatra. The massive tunnel was discovered by an ...

Archaeologists will begin excavating sites in Egypt next week in an attempt to solve a mystery that has stymied historians for hundreds of years: Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers ...

Amateur archaeological sleuth Kathleen Martinez’s quest to find Cleopatra’s tomb took her to a temple complex known as Taposiris Magna, which is located 25 miles west of Alexandria, Egypt. Could it be ...

A visitor views the busts of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (ruled 51-30 BC), the last Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, and the Roman general Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), displayed alongside a statue ...

She remains etched in history as one of the most powerful and seductive queens the world has ever known. Now, more than two millennia after her death, explorers claim they are closer than ever to ...

"This [sculpture of Cleopatra] was not a beautiful work, but it was a very original and very striking one . . . [Cleopatra] is seated in a chair; the poison of the asp has done its work and the Queen ...