Mark Gagnon

Now, once again, historians doubt that she escaped, but there are some gaps in the records, and those gaps lead directly to the next mystery, the lost tomb of Cleopatra.

Now, whether Cleopatra died in Alexandria or vanished from historical records, one fact is certain, that her tomb to this day has never been found.

Some ancient writers say that Cleopatra was buried in a royal mausoleum that she built herself alongside Mark Antony and was stocked with all these treasures, while other sources suggest that this tomb was near or deliberately modeled after the tomb of Alexander the Great.

But Alexandria itself is the problem.

Large portions of this ancient city are now underwater, and earthquakes over the years have caused sections of the coastline to just collapse into the Mediterranean.

And what wasn't swallowed by the sea was buried under 2,000 years of continuous urban life, which basically make excavation nearly impossible.

There's also a darker theory.

It's possible that Octavian himself may have deliberately erased it.

A burial site for Cleopatra would have been very symbolic.

This would have been a place that people would rally around and remember that Rome didn't win so cleanly.

She would have became almost a martyr for the Egyptian cause.

So Octavian destroyed it, and that would have been a final move, not just killing her, but ultimately erasing her from history.

Again, this is difficult to prove, and no one knows for certain, and this is where the mystery lies, right?

If Cleopatra's tomb were ever found intact, looted, or even just identified, it wouldn't just be another archaeological discovery.

It could essentially rewrite what we know about the last days of ancient Egypt and

and that very moment that Rome became an empire.

Now, today, Cleopatra's story matters a lot because it shows how historical narratives can really be distorted by propaganda, right?

For 2,000 years, one of the most accomplished rulers in ancient history has been remembered primarily as just this hot girl who took advantage of powerful men with them thangs, you know what I mean?

But that's probably far from the truth, right?

The real Cleopatra was very cunning and ruthless, and when she needed to...