"Kathleen Martínez has spent the last 20 years searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. Her work is part of a new Nat Geo special called "Cleopatra's Final Secret." Martínez's theory is that because the Romans hated Cleopatra, the queen had her deceased body sneaked to the Taposiris Magna temple in Egypt through underwater tunnels for burial."
"In the remarkable clip, seen in the video player above, Martínez called legendary National Geographic Explorer Bob Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, to share the news. "I have a very big smile on my face," Ballard told her. "There is an island with a harbor that has a tunnel leading from the temple, we think, to that very spot. This doesn't get any better.""
""After 2,000 years nobody has ever been there," Martínez told her team. "We are the first ones.""
Kathleen Martínez has spent the last 20 years searching for Cleopatra's tomb and leads an investigation tied to a National Geographic special, Cleopatra's Final Secret. Martínez proposes that Romans hated Cleopatra and that her body was secretly moved through underwater tunnels to the Taposiris Magna temple for burial. A recent expedition discovered an ancient submerged port site miles offshore of Taposiris Magna in the Mediterranean Sea. Martínez contacted explorer Bob Ballard, who reported an island with a harbor and a possible tunnel linking to the temple. Martínez said the team are the first people to visit the site in 2,000 years. The special premieres Sept. 25 and streams the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.
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