Famous Mystery of Cleopatra

the ancient city of Taposiris Magna is hidden on the northern coast of Egypt these days it has very little of its former glory but What Lies Beneath it may hold the secret to uncovering a famous mystery.

Cleopatra the most memorable Egyptian Queen in history the recently discovered tunnel is also known as a geometric miracle for its time excavations have uncovered a 43 ft long structure below the ground that is partially submerged in water its shape and construction technique are similar to that of the explains tunnel another amazing ancient Discovery this one is located in Greece and was built by Excavating simultaneously from two points aiming to have them meet in the middle the use of math and geometry to make this construction was astonishingly precise for those days more so since it was built near a mountain archaeologists that have been working on the tapes Cirus magnesite since 2004 believe this tunnel may lead to the Lost Tomb.

The clues found so far suggest that Cleopatra's final resting place may be in a city and temple built by her ancestor. Ground penetrating radar technology is being used to study this location, but her tomb has not yet been discovered. Cleopatra was known for her intelligence, education, and love of literature, but recent research suggests that her looks were rather average and may have been adjusted on coins to make her look stronger in the eyes of her people rumored to have known many languages to varying degrees some archaeologists suggested she spoke Greek Egyptian and Ethiopian as well as many Arabic dialects she might have even spoken Latin but there's little evidence to support this claim she might not have had Angelic looks.

Cleopatra was really careful with the way she looked even with her diet she was known to have enjoyed simple meals including a variety of fish since she lived close to the Mediterranean Sea it's really no surprise As a treat she liked to eat stuffed pigeons which she also served to her guests other dishes on the menu included vegetables and fava bean soup fruits and nuts weren't missing from her diet either and she was also a big fan of Honey recently a team of experts has even tried to recreate her famous perfume think of it like the ancient equivalent of Chanel Number Five.

Cleopatra was known to be a fan of luxurious scents which she believed could even influence how people treated her when they met the basis of this scent is myrr a resin gathered from a local tree other ingredients added to the mixture were also found back in the day like cardamom olive oil and cinnamon the results may not be quite as delicate as the perfumes we know and use today its consistency was way thicker and the scent lasted way longer when she was at the height of her power Cleopatra might have been the richest person in the world back in the day she ruled over a territory that stretched across the Mediterranean from modern day Libya in the west through Egypt to Syria in the East this is the largest territory ever ruled over by a woman in today's currency her worth might have been somewhere around $95 billion the calendars we use today may have been introduced by Cleopatra herself she presented the idea of leap years and leap days to Caesar the Roman Emperor she was known to have been close with taking her advice Caesar made these adjustments part of the official Roman Calendar.

The ancient Egyptians already knew the year was longer than precisely 365 days they discovered this by studying the brightest star in the sky called Sirius and concluded that a year is actually 365 and one4 days long it was Elizabeth Taylor that famously introduced Cleopatra to pop culture when she played her in the 1963 film bearing the same name up until that point it was the most expensive film ever made it was originally supposed to cost somewhere around $2 million but ended up costing a mind-boggling $44 million that's mostly because of script and production issues to make this iconic movie Producers created 79 sets from scratch as well as over 26,000 costumes for the cast.

Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra costumes alone cost somewhere around $200,000 thankfully for the producers the movie made headlines and was well received by critics making it a box office success a lot of people associate Cleopatra with another famous Egyptian ruler king Tuton common nicknamed King Tutt surprisingly apart from both of them being Egyptian pharaohs they have nothing else in common for starters King Tut lived around 1300 years before Cleopatra did and there is also no connection regarding their ancestry Cleopatra had Macedonian Greek Roots while King Tut was a native Egyptian.