Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony?
Archaeologists looking for the tombs of the celebrated queen of Egypt and the Roman general, who committed suicide in 31 B.C., will begin excavating three sites at a temple where tombs may be located, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Wednesday. Cleopatra and Mark Antony, whose relationship was later immortalized by William Shakespeare and then in a movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, could have been buried in a deep shaft in a temple near the Mediterranean Sea, the council said. Archaeologists last year unearthed the alabaster head of a Cleopatra statue, 22 coins bearing Cleopatra’s image and a mask believed to belong to Mark Antony at the temple. The three sites were identified last month during a radar survey of the temple of Taposiris Magna, the council’s statement said. The temple is located near the northern coastal city of Alexandria and was built during the reign of King Ptolemy II (282-246 B.C.) Teams from Egypt and the Dominican Republic h
