"Egyptologists are thinking only about the location, but they are not thinking about other facts that (a) lawyer will consider. So I believe she, of course, she would be buried in a temple of Isis, but not that one in Philae. It had to be a temple of Isis in Alexandria. So I started making a map of ancient Alexandria, and then I found this temple, which was 45 kilometers from the royal quarters."
"I remember when I took some of the underwater departments in Alexandria to present the idea that I want to dive together with them. (...) And they look at me, and they say, 'That's impossible. That's only a crazy idea that you have. But can you see with your eyes that this is an open sea?'"
"After studying the life of Cleopatra from the eyes of a criminal lawyer, I thought that the royal quarters were not a place that she would choose,"
Dr. Kathleen Martinez uses legal reasoning and ancient cartography to theorize that Cleopatra deliberately hid her tomb to prevent Roman desecration and would be buried in a temple of Isis within Alexandria rather than at Philae. Martinez identified a temple of Isis roughly 45 kilometers from the royal quarters that is now submerged. Local underwater teams were initially skeptical about diving the site. Martinez enlisted oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard to assist with underwater exploration. The combined approach of legal analysis, mapping of ancient Alexandria, and marine archaeology produced a promising underwater lead for Cleopatra’s burial location.
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