"Tomb of Cleopatra found"

[paullus]

urns were still placed in elaborate graves. I'm not sure what the custom was in 1c bc Egypt, but many Hellenes were also cremated through the centuries. I wonder if it might be more likely that this tomb is the burial of some wealthy Alexandrian, but if its the burial site of Kleopatra, all the better. And if its high profile, we might actually see something within the next couple of years. If its just an elite tomb, it may be years before the first good quality excavation reports.

Oh, and Hellenistic monarchs had little compulsion about remarriage if the need arose. usually the need arose by means of assassination, childbirth, or some new treaty that required that the prince/king get rid of his first wife and marry the daughter/niece/etc of the enemy king.

EDIT: quick web search yields this: apparently Hawass no longer believes they are tracking a tomb at all in the tunnels below a temple complex. Still, they found a nice bronze statue and a marble head and some coins, among other things. I'd rather not read about Hawass running Egyptian archaeology like its a treasure hunt for Kleopatra's tomb.

[keravnos]

My dream is of a papyri cache being found somewhere in the desert.
It could contain a complete book or more, one of those other than the 5% of Ancient greek literature that we now have. If there is one place that this can happen, it is Egypt. The chances are slim, I know, but as I said, it is a dream.

I just hope that the archaeologists there don't consider themselves Indiana Jones.