Excavating the Ruins of Cleopatra

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For centuries, archaeologists searched for the vestiges of Queen Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic ruler of the Egyptian empire. She ruled ancient Egypt until 30 B.C. In 1992, the Franck Goddio Society (FGS) discovered ruins from the submerged city of Alexandria, the hub of Cleopatra’s monarchy. In 1996, FGS presented a map of the city [...]