"Mysteries at the Museum" Cleopatra: Mysteries at the Museum Specials
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Movie Name | "Mysteries at the Museum" Cleopatra: Mysteries at the Museum Specials |
Release Name | Mysteries.at.the.Museum.S20E21.Cleopatra.Mysteries.at.the.Museum.1080p.MAX.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-GPRS |
Year | 2018 |
Kind | tv |
Language | English |
IMDB ID | 8654538 |
Format | srt |
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WILDMAN: On August 12, 30 B.C.,
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the last reigning ruler of Egypt,
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Cleopatra VII,
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committed suicide by snake bite.
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To this day, her tomb has never been found.
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Wow.
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There is no more powerful, nor controversial woman
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in history than Cleopatra.
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The stunning and mercurial leader of the Egyptian empire.
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For 2,000 years, her reputation of striking beauty,
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murderous ambition, and libertine lust
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has defined the reputation,
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her reputation as the last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
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But is this the real story?
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How much do we actually know about the real Cleopatra?
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What new clues are being discovered today?
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Now we send this to the lab.
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You're rewriting history.
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With cutting edge technology...
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There is a whole world beneath.
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It's incredible.
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...just how close are we to discovering Cleopatra's tomb?
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So something is beneath here and you are refusing
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to give up until you find it.
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It's a matter of time.
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From the catacombs of ancient Alexandria...
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Down to find Cleopatra's tomb.
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...to ancient ruins on the ocean floor.
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Wow.
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Who was Cleopatra?
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Here is a woman ruling at a time
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when it was all about men.
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WILDMAN: And where is her final resting place?
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It's a quest to discover her tomb.
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And reveal the true legacy of Egypt's most enigmatic queen.
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It's incredible to think that Cleopatra's tomb could be
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somewhere right beneath my feet.
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Wow!
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I'm Don Wildman.
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I've explored the world's greatest mysteries,
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examined rare artifacts and epic monuments.
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That is unbelievable.
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Now I'm digging deeper into some of the most perplexing
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and famous cases in history.
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My goal? To get closer to the truth.
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-Let's burn this place down. -Let's burn it down.
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On this special episode of
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"Mysteries at the Museum: Cleopatra."
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After more than 2,000 years,
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Cleopatra endures as one of the most fascinating
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and iconic female leaders in history.
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A Pharaoh queen, she ruled over one of the greatest kingdoms
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of the ancient world -- Egypt.
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Fearlessly taking on the Roman empire,
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she seduced both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony,
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two of the most powerful men in Western history.
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The name Cleopatra evokes a lasting image of a sexy
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and ambitious woman.
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A temptress who would stop at nothing to get
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what she wanted.
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From Shakespeare to Hollywood,
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Cleopatra is ingrained in our cultural consciousness
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as history's most famous femme fatale.
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But how accurate is all of this history?
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Many of the details of Cleopatra's life
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are either unknown or clouded by myth.
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So how do we begin to separate the notorious reputation
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from the woman who ruled as Egypt's last Pharaoh?
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Many believe the missing pieces could be revealed
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with the discovery of her tomb.
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After more than 2,000 years, it has yet to be found.
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So can we uncover her final resting place
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and fill in the missing pieces once and for all?
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To find out, I first need to separate fact from fiction
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and learn about the true details of her life.
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And to begin this journey, we need to travel back
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to 69 B.C.,
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the year Cleopatra was born.
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Although she was born in Egypt
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and was Egypt's most famous queen,
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she was not, in fact, Egyptian.
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She was Greek.
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So how did Egypt end up with a Greek queen?
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After Alexander the Great, the Greek king,
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conquered Egypt in 320 B.C.E.,
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he gifted the empire to his star general,
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Ptolemy I, who took the roll of Pharaoh,
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an Egyptian royal ruler.
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For the next 250 years, the Egyptian empire had
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Greek Pharaohs in power.
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In the year 69 B.C., Cleopatra was born
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into this royal family, also known as the Ptolemy line.
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So what was life really like for the Greek queen of Egypt?
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I've come to her birthplace, the city of Alexandria.
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Named after Alexander the Great,
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it's a port city on the Mediterranean Sea
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in northern Egypt.
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2,000 years ago, when Cleopatra was born,
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it was the largest port in the world and the capital
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of ancient Egypt.
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Still one of the most important civilizations of its time.
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In terms of population, knowledge, and culture,
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Alexandria even surpassed Rome in importance.
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Walking around this sprawling metropolis,
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it's immediately evident we're not in
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Cleopatra's Alexandria anymore.
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I mean, there's no sign of that.
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There's no sign of the dazzling palatial architecture
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that made this place the crowned jewel
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of the Mediterranean.
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It's gone.
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But with any ancient city, you have to find a portal
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into the past, a way to look back in time.
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And here in Alexandria, you start underground
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to see the hidden layers that fill in the backdrop
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of the story of Egypt's most famous queen.
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Hello, Colin, how are you doing?
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Hi, Don, welcome to Alexandria.
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-How's it going? -Thank you very much.
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WILDMAN: Colin Clement is an historian and guide
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who knows where to find the layers of
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Alexandria's ancient past
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that tell the true story of Cleopatra.
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Layers that may help lead us closer to her tomb.
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There is no place that shows the city's blend
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of both Greek and Egyptian culture better than here,
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the catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa,
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considered one of the seven wonders
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of the Middle Ages.
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Wow, what is this place?
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Colin tells me the story of Cleopatra's Egypt can be found
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in these catacombs.
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Now this is the main tomb of this particular complex.
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Wow, it is spectacular.
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So I am seeing a lot of different elements, aren't I?
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Oh, absolutely. This is expressing Alexandria.
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Very much Alexandria about the time of Cleopatra.
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It's the sort of cultural milieu that she was born into,
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which was layered. -Okay.
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Because here, if we look, the entrance to this tomb,
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it's purely Egyptian in form.
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We have the cobra with the wings deployed. Mm-hmm.
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And then columns, the Papyriform columns,
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it's all speaks of Egypt.
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But if you take two steps in into the antechamber,
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you see suddenly we come back to Greece. Hmm.
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That medallion, that shield, is the head of Medusa. Wow.
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Who was the great, you know, protective emblem of tombs
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in the Greek world.
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-But then look at its head. -There's a crown.
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And that's the crown of upper and lower Egypt. Oh, fascinating.
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So we have Greek imagery,
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but with an Egyptian stamp on it.
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So we got these two things sitting next together,
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being shared in this one tomb complex.
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So this is a perfect cross-section of
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what was happening at the time of Cleopatra.
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-Greek and Egyptian. -Absolutely.
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We know Cleopatra was the first of that dynasty
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to learn the local language, to speak Egyptian. Huh.
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WILDMAN: By speaking the native tongue,
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Cleopatra had the support of the Egyptian people
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and she furthered this loyalty by exploiting the belief
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that all Pharaohs have a direct connection to the Gods.
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Cleopatra aligned herself with the most popular
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Egyptian goddess, Isis.
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So once she assumes power, what's her motivation here?
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What does she want to become?
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She wants to try to reestablish a certain
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independence for Egypt.
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Try to fend off the outside threat which is ultimately Rome.
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WILDMAN: But outside threats like Rome weren't
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Cleopatra's only problem.
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It turns out Cleopatra wasn't even the lone ruler of Egypt.
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She shared the throne with her younger brother,
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to whom she was married.
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So Cleopatra, 18 years old, assumes power with her brother.
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She's a co-regent, yeah?
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Right, yes, indeed.
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Which is not completely abnormal. Yeah.
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There's a history within Egypt of brother/sister marriage
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for the rulers. -Mm-hmm.
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there seemed to be some an imbalance, why?
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Because she's the older of the sibling.
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Okay, but she's been groomed for this. Clearly.
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I mean, she'd been groomed into, the, you know,
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the political machinations of the whole dynasty.
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She is 300 years a distillation of Ptolemaic rule,
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a great education.
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I mean, she's been brought up in a court.
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So she has to navigate a classic sibling rivalry
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but also the factions within a court? Absolutely.
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Eventually, she gets pushed out.
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The backers, whoever they were behind her younger brother,
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expel her from the capital.
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So Cleopatra is forced out of power and into exile.
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Where does she go?
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She goes to Sinai Peninsula, which is Egyptian territory. Mm-hmm.
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So exile, yes.
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Mm, she's not been kicked out of the country.
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She's not been murdered.
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She's been pushed away from the center of power. Hmm.
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And her brother takes over.
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And what happens there?
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Well, we don't really know.
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She's in some three years or so she's away from Alexandria.
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She's away from the wheels of power.
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But it's not so much what happened there,
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it's what happens outside of Egypt.
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What's happening just across the water in the Roman world
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that's gonna give her the opportunity to come back.
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Because Rome is rising.
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-And take over Egypt. -Indeed.
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WILDMAN: Although Rome, who's power reached as far as Persia,
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had always been perceived as a threat
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to Egypt's independence, it would turn out to be the key
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to Cleopatra's escape from exile
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and to regaining her throne.
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At this point in Rome, there's civil war, right?
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There's civil war, indeed, yes.
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I mean, there's a major clash between the two great generals
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of the period -- Julius Caesar and Pompey. Yeah.
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Pompey and Caesar were both triumphant
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military men fighting for control of the Roman Republic.
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So a civil war between Julius Caesar
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and Pompey results in what? -Mm-hmm.
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Well, there's a massive battle in what is now
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central Greece at Farsala.
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-Pompey is defeated -- -Yeah.
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...and he flees down south
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across the Mediterranean to Alexandria.
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What happens to Pompey here?
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Well, the Egyptians see him coming.
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They know that he has been defeated by Caesar,
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so they presumed Caesar is in pursuit. Yeah.
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So almost before Pompey can get off the boat,
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they assassinate him.
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In tribute to Caesar?
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Yes, they can see that Pompey is perhaps yesterday's man.
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Caesar is today's man.
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And they wanna be on side with the rising power.
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WILDMAN: Days after Pompey's murder,
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dressed in the imperial red,
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Julius Caesar arrived in Alexandria.
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The local Egyptian soldiers,
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as commanded by Cleopatra's brother,
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presented him with the head of Pompey,
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his defeated rival.
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Caesar was not happy to find that someone
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of Pompey's grandeur had been just slaughtered like that. Okay.
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Now, for Cleopatra, who's been out of favor
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and out of power, she sees that her sibling has made
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a false move.
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This is the beginning of Cleopatra's return from exile.
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-Her comeback, yes. -Yeah.
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WILDMAN: Julius Caesar decided to stay in Alexandria.
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His army eventually killing Cleopatra's brother.
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With her brother now dead, Cleopatra saw an opportunity
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to regain her throne.
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So, she devised a master plan.
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But would it work?
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This is the crypt.
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This is where they would hide all their treasure.
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WILDMAN: What's the truth behind the events
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that led to her suicide?
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That's Caesarion. That's her son.
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That's her secret weapon.
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WILDMAN: Can we find the real answers hidden in her tomb?
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Wow!
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WILDMAN: I'm on a quest to discover Cleopatra's tomb
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and reveal, once and for all,
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the true legacy of Egypt's last pharaoh.
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But until we make that discovery,
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we're left to fill in the pieces of
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this complicated puzzle.
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What we know is that Cleopatra was forced into exile
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by her brother.
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She then waited patiently for her opportunity
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to regain the throne.
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And when Julius Caesar arrived in Alexandria,
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she prepared to make her move and devised a master plan.
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It's the stuff of legend.
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Here's how the story goes.
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Now, under the cloak of darkness, Cleopatra approaches,
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right here in these waters, Alexandria Harbor,
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in the company of her most trusted advisor
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in a tiny little wooden boat in complete secrecy.
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She has that advisor
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wrap her in a carpet
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and hoisted onto his shoulder and he walks right
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to Caesar's quarters.
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He is then presenting this carpet as a gift to Caesar.
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And he unrolls the carpet in the quarters,
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and who should roll out with it but Cleopatra.
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Now at this point, Caesar is the most powerful man
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in the world looking down
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at a 21-year-old stunning young queen.
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And the history of the world is changed forever.
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Cleopatra's plan had been executed to perfection.
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She was the queen of Egypt once again.
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She and Caesar embarked on a very public
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and flagrant relationship.
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Together, they took a four-month trip on the Nile
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where Cleopatra introduced Caesar to the great pyramids.
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The couple were adored wherever they went.
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But if their fiery romance could bind them politically
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as well, then Cleopatra could accomplish more
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than just returning Egypt to its former glory.
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She would be the most powerful woman in the world.
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And that's exactly what happened when she became pregnant
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with Caesar's child.
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In 46 B.C., Cleopatra gave birth to a boy
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and called him Caesarion, also known as Little Caesar.
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With her ties to Caesar cemented by blood,
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Cleopatra and her new family split their time
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between Alexandria and Rome.
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The legendary seductress had rendered the Roman Empire
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a powerless threat to Egypt.
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But this newfound security wouldn't last.
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Caesar had grown into a dictator.
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Fearing the emperor's unchecked power,
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the Roman senate staged a coupe, and on March 15, 44 B.C.,
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Caesar was assassinated in Rome by his own government.
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So who would lead Caesar's empire and what would that mean
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for the fate of Cleopatra and her son Caesarion?
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Being a Pharaoh meant that Cleopatra had
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a direct connection to the gods.
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She was a living goddess.
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She considered herself to be the incarnation
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of the most popular Egyptian goddess, Isis.
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Performing religious rituals, building new temples,
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embellishing old ones, she took special care
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to maintain the loyalty and good will of the people.
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I've traveled to the Temple of Hathor in Dendera,
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one of the best preserved temple complexes in Egypt.
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Wow.
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Oh, my goodness, look at this.
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And one of Cleopatra's most exquisite accomplishments.
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Man.
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The present Temple of Hathor was largely built
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by Cleopatra and her father, and the wealth it held could be
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the key to Cleopatra's survival,
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even after Caesar's assassination.
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-Dr. Ikram, how are you? -Hey, Don. Nice to see you.
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Glad you made it. I know. Amazing, isn't it? Breathtaking interior.
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WILDMAN: Famed Egyptologist Dr. Selima Ikram,
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is a professor at
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the American University in Cairo.
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This was built by?
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It was Cleopatra's father who started it. Okay.
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But then he died and so Cleopatra finished it off
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and she's also responsible for all the splendid decoration.
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By building the temple, decorating it, she was showing
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the people that she cared.
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WILDMAN: Without Caesar's protection,
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how will Cleopatra protect her empire?
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-Caesar is dead. -Yeah.
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This has huge implications, obviously, for Egypt, right?
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Yeah, it's a complete disaster because without him,
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she is open to being preyed upon by Rome.
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Right, exactly.
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When Caesar dies, there's a huge power vacuum,
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and it's going to be filled by two people.
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One, Octavian.
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And the other, Mark Antony.
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But they're really different people who are supposed
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to be ruling Rome together, and neither one of them
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really wants to share.
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And where does Cleopatra fit into this?
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Ah, she has to come up with another strategy.
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Just pull this up.
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Oh, okay.
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And...there we go.
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-Like so, huh? -Mm-hmm.
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That's great.
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-Down you go. -Okay.
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Oh, this is great.
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This is the crypt.
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It's one of the great secrets of Dendera. Oh, I see.
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This is where they would hide all their treasure. Oh, okay.
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With Caesar dead, Cleopatra makes elaborate preparations
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and she sails off to Tarsus, which is in Asia Minor Turkey,
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and set her sights on Mark Antony.
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And of course, at this point, he's been doing battle
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and not doing too well. -Mm-hmm.
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So he needs money. Gold, wealth.
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And Cleopatra has all of that.
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And she sails up the river in this barge
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that she's prepared.
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Huge boat, gilded oars, people dressed very elaborately,
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little boys dressed as cupid, and she comes
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in Diaphanous clothing, clad as a goddess.
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She's Isis.
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And here, for example, you see this broad collar,
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which was originally gold and incredibly heavy. Okay.
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-She would've been wearing it. -Yeah.
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So this is something that Mark Antony would've seen
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as very real value.
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And so, this is how it all starts.
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-This is high-stakes stuff. -Absolutely.
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This is her whole life she's putting into this.
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Not just her life.
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Much more important, it's her empire.
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WILDMAN: What started out as a political move
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by Cleopatra quickly turned into a heated relationship
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and Mark Antony decided to go back to Egypt with her.
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-Passion did take over. -Okay.
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Foolishly.
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WILDMAN: For the second time,
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Cleopatra had successfully seduced
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the leader of Rome.
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They really are wonderfully well suited,
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having a great time.
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Except the longer Mark Antony stays with Cleopatra,
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the more complicated things become in Rome.
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In what way?
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Well, he's losing his popularity because he's hanging out
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with this Eastern woman.
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So he decides that he is going to strategically go back
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to Rome and marry his coregent Octavian's sister. Oh, okay.
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Octavia.
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A classic political maneuver among royalty. Absolutely.
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And so he goes back, does this.
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Octavia is this wonderful, perfect sort of person,
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and so the Romans feel very happy again.
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And of course, Cleopatra is not quite so happy. Right.
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But she does understand that this is a political ploy.
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WILDMAN: Despite his marriage to his rival Octavian's sister,
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Antony continued his love affair with Cleopatra
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and he married her, too.
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They had three children together.
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This put further strain on Antony's relations with Rome.
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And fearing Octavian might order Mark Antony killed
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for marrying her.
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That's incredible.
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Cleopatra devised a backup plan.
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So this entire picture is leading up to the star
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of the show, Cleopatra right there. Yeah.
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-And next to her? -That's Caesarion.
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That's her son. That's her secret weapon.
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WILDMAN: Caesarion, the first-born son of Cleopatra
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and Julius Caesar, a possible heir to the throne
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of both Egypt and Rome.
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For Cleopatra, she's making a huge public statement
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about this is my son. -Mm-hmm.
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And he is going to, in fact, take over the country.
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And this is marking him as the heir apparent,
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so it really is a public acclimation of them
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as a ruling couple. -Okay.
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This is also something that she can say,
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"I have a king to rule with me," so should things go
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pear-shaped with Mark Antony, she has someone.
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WILDMAN: And things did go pear-shaped.
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After several years of tension, Octavian declared war
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against Cleopatra and Mark Antony.
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And defeated Antony's forces in Alexandria.
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But Antony didn't die.
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Octavian, aware of his leverage, sends word to Cleopatra
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that if she kills Mark Antony, he may spare her life
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and be open to political negotiation
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of who will rule Egypt.
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Cleopatra realizes she's not powerful enough
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to expel Mark Antony from Egypt.
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And she has not the stomach to assassinate him.
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But is she willing to lose her empire for love?
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So she conceives of a chilling plot.
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She has a message sent to Mark Antony that says
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she has killed herself.
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Her hope?
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That upon hearing the news of her death,
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Antony would take his own life.
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And that is exactly what happened.
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Upon hearing the news of his great love,
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Mark Antony falls on his sword.
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But this romantic act of suicide does not
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immediately kill him.
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So he has himself carried to the place
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where Cleopatra's body's supposed to be.
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There, upon finding her still alive,
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he tells her to make her peace with Octavian.
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And then, and only then, does Mark Antony die.
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When Octavian finally reached Cleopatra,
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she tried to seduce him.
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But he resister her charms.
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He also resisted her son Caesarion as a possible heir
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to the throne.
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She was out of options.
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As lore famously tells it, she has a poison snake smuggled
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to her in a basket of figs.
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And then, fearless as ever, she had that snake bite her
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repeatedly upon the chest until she succumbed
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to its deadly poison.
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And in a last act of love and devotion, she arranged
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to have her body buried next to Mark Antony.
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Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemaic dynasty,
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the last queen of Egypt, the last Pharaoh,
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was dead at 39.
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Cleopatra's legacy is one of history's most powerful
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and independent female leaders is unquestionable.
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Yet the role she's most remembered for is
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that of a seductress.
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A woman who used her gender and sensuality
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to manipulate the most powerful men in the ancient world.
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But what is the Cleopatra we presume to know
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was much different?
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What if she was more complex and compelling queen, after all?
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Who was the real Cleopatra?
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To find out, I'm searching for her lost tomb.
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So we enter the tomb over here.
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00:24:10,550 --> 00:24:12,686
Cleopatra's tomb might be somewhere right
514
00:24:12,752 --> 00:24:17,023
beneath my feet.
515
00:24:21,761 --> 00:24:23,763
WILDMAN: I'm on a quest to uncover
516
00:24:23,830 --> 00:24:26,266
the lost tomb of Cleopatra,
517
00:24:26,332 --> 00:24:28,401
Egypt's most enigmatic queen.
518
00:24:32,072 --> 00:24:35,208
As legend goes, after Cleopatra took her own life,
519
00:24:35,275 --> 00:24:38,511
she was buried in a tomb with Mark Antony.
520
00:24:38,578 --> 00:24:42,949
A tomb that has never been found.
521
00:24:43,016 --> 00:24:45,885
With her death, the Kingdom of Egypt was annexed
522
00:24:45,952 --> 00:24:47,354
by the Roman Empire,
523
00:24:47,420 --> 00:24:52,058
and the Ptolemaic Pharaoh dynasty came to an end.
524
00:24:52,125 --> 00:24:54,127
In the two millennia since her death,
525
00:24:54,194 --> 00:24:57,597
Cleopatra's life and legacy has been largely defined
526
00:24:57,664 --> 00:25:00,100
by what her Roman enemies wrote about her.
527
00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:01,501
That she was a dangerous seductress
528
00:25:01,568 --> 00:25:03,103
who used her sexuality
529
00:25:03,169 --> 00:25:06,473
and ambition to reach for power that was beyond
530
00:25:06,539 --> 00:25:09,943
what was proper for a woman.
531
00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:12,679
But we sometimes forget that this was a real woman
532
00:25:12,746 --> 00:25:14,614
who ruled one of the greatest civilizations
533
00:25:14,681 --> 00:25:16,149
of the ancient world
534
00:25:16,216 --> 00:25:18,685
and who died trying to save her kingdom
535
00:25:18,752 --> 00:25:20,620
from Roman conquest.
536
00:25:20,687 --> 00:25:23,056
So, beyond the myth, beyond the propaganda,
537
00:25:23,123 --> 00:25:26,493
who was the woman behind the formidable
538
00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:28,361
and fabled queen of Egypt?
539
00:25:28,428 --> 00:25:30,430
And how do we tease out the truth
540
00:25:30,497 --> 00:25:32,832
from her licentious reputation?
541
00:25:36,836 --> 00:25:38,705
My search for the truth has brought me
542
00:25:38,772 --> 00:25:41,975
to the Library of Alexandria.
543
00:25:42,042 --> 00:25:45,645
Wow.
544
00:25:45,712 --> 00:25:48,014
This library was a great seed of knowledge
545
00:25:48,081 --> 00:25:50,950
in the ancient world during the reign of Cleopatra.
546
00:25:51,017 --> 00:25:53,353
But it was completely destroyed by a fire.
547
00:25:53,420 --> 00:25:57,123
It was reborn in 2002 to reclaim the mantle
548
00:25:57,190 --> 00:25:59,693
of its ancient glory.
549
00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:02,328
This extraordinary architectural wonder is home
550
00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:06,266
to a vast complex where arts, history, philosophy,
551
00:26:06,332 --> 00:26:10,070
and science all come together.
552
00:26:10,136 --> 00:26:12,238
-Dr. Basir? -Hi, how are you?
553
00:26:12,305 --> 00:26:13,673
-Nice to meet you. -Nice meeting you.
554
00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:16,776
WILDMAN: Dr. Hussein Basir is the director of
555
00:26:16,843 --> 00:26:20,780
the Antiquity Museum at the Alexandria Library.
556
00:26:20,847 --> 00:26:24,184
Dr. Basir has offered to show me ancient text
557
00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:29,823
that may hold the secrets to the real Cleopatra.
558
00:26:29,889 --> 00:26:33,026
So, Dr. Basir, my version of Cleopatra,
559
00:26:33,093 --> 00:26:37,530
a seductress, a harlot, a manipulator of men.
560
00:26:37,597 --> 00:26:39,833
That's what I was raised with. That's the Western version.
561
00:26:39,899 --> 00:26:42,435
It was kind of a negative Cleopatra. Yes.
562
00:26:42,502 --> 00:26:45,238
Mm.
563
00:26:47,374 --> 00:26:50,443
Dr. Basir tells me that this Western view is
564
00:26:50,510 --> 00:26:53,780
actually influenced by Octavian who had vowed
565
00:26:53,847 --> 00:26:57,484
to destroy Cleopatra's reputation.
566
00:26:57,550 --> 00:26:59,452
And with her finally out of the picture,
567
00:26:59,519 --> 00:27:01,521
that's exactly what happened.
568
00:27:01,588 --> 00:27:05,325
The story of Cleopatra is retold by the Romans. Yes.
569
00:27:05,392 --> 00:27:07,427
And we end up with that version. Yes.
570
00:27:07,494 --> 00:27:09,696
Until now.
571
00:27:09,763 --> 00:27:12,799
In recent years, scholars across the world have begun
572
00:27:12,866 --> 00:27:15,735
to question the accepted history of Cleopatra.
573
00:27:15,802 --> 00:27:19,239
Thanks largely to medieval Islamic Egyptian texts
574
00:27:19,305 --> 00:27:21,508
that tell of a much different story.
575
00:27:21,574 --> 00:27:24,144
So this is whole different version of Cleopatra. Yes.
576
00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:25,545
Tell me what it says.
577
00:27:35,155 --> 00:27:37,323
Interesting.
578
00:27:37,390 --> 00:27:38,958
Wow, okay.
579
00:27:39,025 --> 00:27:41,795
To the ancient Greeks, a sage was a philosopher.
580
00:27:41,861 --> 00:27:45,098
The bearer of great wisdom.
581
00:27:45,165 --> 00:27:46,733
-So a sage, a philosopher. -Yes.
582
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,537
This woman is smart. She's worldly, sophisticated. Yes.
583
00:27:54,274 --> 00:27:55,809
Interesting.
584
00:27:59,079 --> 00:28:02,716
Wow!
585
00:28:02,782 --> 00:28:06,853
So, Cleopatra was linked to the medical profession.
586
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,256
She was an established author and a savant.
587
00:28:10,323 --> 00:28:12,325
And in addition to being the first Greek pharaoh
588
00:28:12,392 --> 00:28:15,161
to actually speak Egyptian, she was fluent
589
00:28:15,228 --> 00:28:17,797
in nine other languages.
590
00:28:17,864 --> 00:28:20,834
But perhaps the most interesting thing about these texts is
591
00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:22,702
what's not included.
592
00:28:22,769 --> 00:28:25,238
There's no mention of Cleopatra's assorted
593
00:28:25,305 --> 00:28:28,575
love affairs and scandals.
594
00:28:28,641 --> 00:28:30,143
You see? That's different.
595
00:28:30,210 --> 00:28:31,745
Yeah, but we've been sold a story, haven't we?
596
00:28:31,811 --> 00:28:34,147
This is a misogynistic, chauvinistic view of history,
597
00:28:34,214 --> 00:28:37,283
isn't it? -Yes, yes, yes.
598
00:28:37,350 --> 00:28:38,718
What seems clear is that
599
00:28:38,785 --> 00:28:41,755
Cleopatra has been hugely misrepresented.
600
00:28:41,821 --> 00:28:44,090
But scholars are beginning to revise this image.
601
00:28:44,157 --> 00:28:45,859
We're beginning to think differently
602
00:28:45,925 --> 00:28:47,761
about this iconic queen.
603
00:28:52,332 --> 00:28:54,868
One of the most enduring myths that has dominated
604
00:28:54,934 --> 00:28:58,004
our idea of Cleopatra through the ages is the one
605
00:28:58,071 --> 00:29:00,707
that surrounds her beauty.
606
00:29:00,774 --> 00:29:03,276
In the West, from the early Greeks and Romans
607
00:29:03,343 --> 00:29:05,945
through Shakespeare and ultimately emblazoned
608
00:29:06,012 --> 00:29:08,915
into our cultural consciousness by Hollywood,
609
00:29:08,982 --> 00:29:11,584
Cleopatra is represented as the quintessential,
610
00:29:11,651 --> 00:29:13,853
sultry femme fatale.
611
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,456
When I think of Cleopatra, I immediately think
612
00:29:16,523 --> 00:29:18,625
of Elizabeth Taylor's iconic performance
613
00:29:18,692 --> 00:29:20,060
opposite Richard Burton.
614
00:29:20,126 --> 00:29:22,562
A beautiful and bewitching seductress.
615
00:29:22,629 --> 00:29:25,098
But does any visual evidence exist today
616
00:29:25,165 --> 00:29:28,201
that tells us how Cleopatra actually looked?
617
00:29:28,268 --> 00:29:30,970
I'm here at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
618
00:29:31,037 --> 00:29:33,673
It's known as the largest archeology museum in the world,
619
00:29:33,740 --> 00:29:35,408
still under construction.
620
00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:37,610
And I've been given special access into the lab
621
00:29:37,677 --> 00:29:40,180
where the only artifacts that exist
622
00:29:40,246 --> 00:29:41,581
about Cleopatra are stored.
623
00:29:46,886 --> 00:29:49,689
Ancient coins discovered at a recent archeological dig
624
00:29:49,756 --> 00:29:53,059
are decorated with Cleopatra's profile.
625
00:29:53,126 --> 00:29:55,395
This new evidence calls into question
626
00:29:55,462 --> 00:29:58,264
our notions of the beautiful queen.
627
00:29:58,331 --> 00:30:00,066
Here, take a look at this.
628
00:30:00,133 --> 00:30:02,202
That's amazing.
629
00:30:02,268 --> 00:30:05,972
Now, the tiny images here on these coins belie
630
00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:08,308
their importance, the huge importance of these.
631
00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:11,845
These are one of the few existing visual depictions
632
00:30:11,911 --> 00:30:16,282
of Cleopatra, of her face, that still exist from that time.
633
00:30:16,349 --> 00:30:19,319
But you look closer at her and that is not
634
00:30:19,386 --> 00:30:21,121
the Cleopatra I know, you know,
635
00:30:21,187 --> 00:30:24,190
from popular, you know, mythology.
636
00:30:24,257 --> 00:30:26,259
This is a different looking woman.
637
00:30:26,326 --> 00:30:28,395
Not necessarily the ravishing portrait
638
00:30:28,461 --> 00:30:30,897
that I would've expected.
639
00:30:30,964 --> 00:30:33,767
If we've gotten this wrong, her physicality,
640
00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:36,569
what else about Cleopatra have we gotten wrong?
641
00:30:39,673 --> 00:30:41,841
But perhaps the biggest mystery of all is
642
00:30:41,908 --> 00:30:43,777
what happened to her body afterwards.
643
00:30:43,843 --> 00:30:46,780
Archeologists around the world continue to search
644
00:30:46,846 --> 00:30:49,582
and theorize about the location of her tomb.
645
00:30:49,649 --> 00:30:52,052
But the burning question still remains.
646
00:30:52,118 --> 00:30:55,121
Where was Cleopatra finally laid to rest?
647
00:31:03,830 --> 00:31:06,599
I'm in Egypt uncovering the truth
648
00:31:06,666 --> 00:31:10,770
behind its last ruling pharaoh -- Cleopatra.
649
00:31:10,837 --> 00:31:13,740
But with all the swirling mysteries behind her reign
650
00:31:13,807 --> 00:31:17,143
and eventual suicide, one stands above all,
651
00:31:17,210 --> 00:31:18,878
where is her tomb?
652
00:31:21,314 --> 00:31:23,516
Connecting Cleopatra's physical legacy
653
00:31:23,583 --> 00:31:26,486
to modern day Alexandria has proven to be one
654
00:31:26,553 --> 00:31:28,955
of the biggest challenges for archeologists
655
00:31:29,022 --> 00:31:30,623
and historians alike.
656
00:31:30,690 --> 00:31:32,625
By the 14th century,
657
00:31:32,692 --> 00:31:34,828
any trace of Ptolemaic Alexandria
658
00:31:34,894 --> 00:31:36,463
was basically gone.
659
00:31:36,529 --> 00:31:38,865
What hadn't been lost to the ravages of war
660
00:31:38,932 --> 00:31:42,435
and time was destroyed by natural catastrophe.
661
00:31:42,502 --> 00:31:45,405
A series of devastating earthquakes and the tsunamis
662
00:31:45,472 --> 00:31:48,141
to follow had basically destroyed Cleopatra's court
663
00:31:48,208 --> 00:31:51,945
and palace and it was submerged into the sea.
664
00:31:52,012 --> 00:31:55,448
And for more than 1,500 years, that's where it remained.
665
00:31:55,515 --> 00:31:57,050
Lost to the sands of time.
666
00:31:57,117 --> 00:31:58,518
How you doing?
667
00:31:58,585 --> 00:32:01,154
But in the '90s, remarkable underwater archeological
668
00:32:01,221 --> 00:32:04,090
discoveries started being made right out here,
669
00:32:04,157 --> 00:32:08,828
in Alexandria's eastern harbor.
670
00:32:08,895 --> 00:32:11,197
Many archeologists and historians believe
671
00:32:11,264 --> 00:32:13,767
that when her palace collapsed into the harbor,
672
00:32:13,833 --> 00:32:17,671
Cleopatra's royal tomb went down with it.
673
00:32:17,737 --> 00:32:19,739
Down to find Cleopatra's tomb.
674
00:32:28,415 --> 00:32:31,618
It's just extraordinary to see and touch the remains...
675
00:32:31,685 --> 00:32:32,852
Wow.
676
00:32:32,919 --> 00:32:36,289
...of Cleopatra's palace after thousands of years.
677
00:32:38,825 --> 00:32:41,761
It's also clear trying to find her royal tomb hidden
678
00:32:41,828 --> 00:32:46,866
somewhere on the ocean floor would be nearly impossible.
679
00:32:46,933 --> 00:32:51,371
If it was there at all.
680
00:32:51,438 --> 00:32:54,841
It turns out a controversy is brewing among archeologists
681
00:32:54,908 --> 00:32:58,078
about other possible locations for the final resting place
682
00:32:58,144 --> 00:33:00,447
of Egypt's last pharaoh,
683
00:33:00,513 --> 00:33:04,751
where the truth about her legacy could be discovered.
684
00:33:04,818 --> 00:33:07,354
I'm about 45 minutes outside of Alexandria
685
00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:10,757
at a site known as Taposiris Magna.
686
00:33:10,824 --> 00:33:13,593
This is one of the publicized digs in Egypt.
687
00:33:13,660 --> 00:33:15,128
Currently underway
688
00:33:15,195 --> 00:33:17,931
and possibly at a very exciting juncture.
689
00:33:17,997 --> 00:33:19,733
I'm meeting a maverick archeologist
690
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:20,967
who's making headlines
691
00:33:21,034 --> 00:33:23,870
in her quest to find Cleopatra's tomb.
692
00:33:23,937 --> 00:33:26,973
Is it possible the tomb is about to be discovered?
693
00:33:31,611 --> 00:33:34,581
Dr. Martinez? How you doing? Yes, hello, Don.
694
00:33:34,647 --> 00:33:38,385
Hi, Kathleen, nice to meet you.
695
00:33:38,451 --> 00:33:42,255
With nearly 15 years of research and excavation behind her,
696
00:33:42,322 --> 00:33:45,325
Dr. Kathleen Martinez feels she's on the brink
697
00:33:45,392 --> 00:33:47,894
of discovering Cleopatra's tomb.
698
00:33:47,961 --> 00:33:49,262
And I'm here to find out why.
699
00:33:54,334 --> 00:33:57,237
Uh-huh.
700
00:33:57,303 --> 00:33:59,739
Uh-huh.
701
00:34:02,609 --> 00:34:06,212
Isis, the protective goddess that Cleopatra represented
702
00:34:06,279 --> 00:34:08,048
to Egyptian people.
703
00:34:08,114 --> 00:34:10,216
The same goddess she's depicted as
704
00:34:10,283 --> 00:34:13,053
on the temple wall Dendera.
705
00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:14,254
So it was important to find a place
706
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,724
where Isis was represented, worshiped,
707
00:34:17,791 --> 00:34:20,160
because that might be also where Cleopatra is worshiped.
708
00:34:25,565 --> 00:34:26,866
That's incredible.
709
00:34:32,472 --> 00:34:35,508
Ah.
710
00:34:35,575 --> 00:34:36,943
200 coins.
711
00:34:37,010 --> 00:34:38,411
With Cleopatra.
712
00:34:38,478 --> 00:34:39,612
And these would be coins that would be right in here
713
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:40,880
'cause this was the offering.
714
00:34:40,947 --> 00:34:42,415
It's the place you'd make your offerings. Yes.
715
00:34:42,482 --> 00:34:45,318
Okay. So I saw these coins in the Grand Museum that had -- Yes.
716
00:34:45,385 --> 00:34:47,387
...these were the coins? -Yes, these are the coins.
717
00:34:47,454 --> 00:34:49,222
I get it.
718
00:34:49,289 --> 00:34:52,058
So these coins were part of the first clues discovered
719
00:34:52,125 --> 00:34:54,994
by Kathleen that pointed to this temple as
720
00:34:55,061 --> 00:34:58,465
a possible burial spot of Cleopatra.
721
00:34:58,531 --> 00:35:01,634
But since then, she's made another discovery
722
00:35:01,701 --> 00:35:04,004
that's even more convincing.
723
00:35:08,641 --> 00:35:11,411
Uh-huh.
724
00:35:11,478 --> 00:35:13,913
Really?
725
00:35:15,682 --> 00:35:17,584
Okay.
726
00:35:19,319 --> 00:35:20,987
Wow.
727
00:35:21,054 --> 00:35:22,255
-Amazing. -Isn't it incredible?
728
00:35:22,322 --> 00:35:23,423
It's huge!
729
00:35:26,526 --> 00:35:27,961
What did you find down here?
730
00:35:32,198 --> 00:35:34,634
Yeah.
731
00:35:34,701 --> 00:35:37,771
And the significance of a priest is what?
732
00:35:37,837 --> 00:35:39,839
Yeah.
733
00:35:39,906 --> 00:35:42,042
The presence of the priest buried here
734
00:35:42,108 --> 00:35:44,878
means that they were the guardians of a royal temple? Yes.
735
00:35:44,944 --> 00:35:47,414
Okay, so there was a Pharaoh beyond those priests? Yes.
736
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,416
Or presumably there might be.
737
00:35:49,482 --> 00:35:50,750
Where does this shaft go?
738
00:35:50,817 --> 00:35:54,020
The shaft, it's turning to the same angle
739
00:35:54,087 --> 00:35:56,423
of the Isis chapel.
740
00:35:56,489 --> 00:36:00,260
And so that would be the person who embodies Isis. Yes.
741
00:36:00,326 --> 00:36:02,896
-Meaning Cleopatra. -Yes.
742
00:36:02,962 --> 00:36:04,164
-I salute you.
743
00:36:04,230 --> 00:36:06,433
I mean, this is an amazing accomplishment.
744
00:36:11,037 --> 00:36:14,074
Dr. Martinez has discovered a maze of shafts
745
00:36:14,140 --> 00:36:17,110
and tunnels throughout this temple complex
746
00:36:17,177 --> 00:36:19,379
that tempts the imagination.
747
00:36:26,753 --> 00:36:28,455
Wow.
748
00:36:32,726 --> 00:36:36,196
It's incredible to think that Cleopatra's tomb could be
749
00:36:36,262 --> 00:36:39,299
somewhere right beneath my feet.
750
00:36:39,366 --> 00:36:43,903
Finding her tomb and turning her legend real would be
751
00:36:43,970 --> 00:36:47,474
the greatest discovery in Egypt since Howard Carter opened
752
00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:50,243
Tutankhamun tomb in 1922.
753
00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:52,212
There's no telling how much we could learn
754
00:36:52,278 --> 00:36:55,682
about Cleopatra's life and how she ruled.
755
00:36:55,749 --> 00:36:58,251
So how close is Dr. Martinez
756
00:36:58,318 --> 00:37:00,687
to discovering Cleopatra's tomb?
757
00:37:00,754 --> 00:37:02,956
I'm going deep underground into the bedrock
758
00:37:03,023 --> 00:37:06,960
to find out what Kathleen and her team have uncovered
759
00:37:07,027 --> 00:37:09,095
and why they feel they're closer than ever before
760
00:37:09,162 --> 00:37:10,930
to a major breakthrough.
761
00:37:10,997 --> 00:37:12,298
It's a matter of time.
762
00:37:17,604 --> 00:37:20,740
WILDMAN: I'm in Egypt at the Temple of Taposiris
763
00:37:20,807 --> 00:37:22,976
where archeologist Kathleen Martinez
764
00:37:23,043 --> 00:37:26,746
may be on the brink of discovering Cleopatra's tomb.
765
00:37:26,813 --> 00:37:30,016
This vast temple complex is absolutely riddled
766
00:37:30,083 --> 00:37:32,352
with ancient burial chambers.
767
00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:37,090
Not only within the temple walls, but also outside.
768
00:37:37,157 --> 00:37:38,792
Wow, there you go.
769
00:37:38,858 --> 00:37:41,394
So there's tombs all over this place? Yes.
770
00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:06,186
Were these royals who were here? Yes.
771
00:38:06,252 --> 00:38:08,555
Ah, what tells you that?
772
00:38:14,561 --> 00:38:16,796
Mm-hmm.
773
00:38:19,032 --> 00:38:21,901
Mm-hmm.
774
00:38:30,877 --> 00:38:32,612
All right.
775
00:38:37,083 --> 00:38:38,785
WILDMAN: With the right technology,
776
00:38:38,852 --> 00:38:41,087
we could zero in on her target --
777
00:38:41,154 --> 00:38:43,823
Cleopatra's tomb.
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She's already finding success within the temple walls.
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For Kathleen to be able to know whether she needs
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to dig somewhere, she's using this Russian technology.
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It's a kind of ground-penetrating radar,
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and it shoots an electromagnetic pulse into the ground
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and picks it up in the back and they read,
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basically model out through data, what is down there.
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Shafts, tunnels, tombs.
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They'll be able to read whether it's worth digging
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in this spot.
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What will the scans reveal?
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Could the tomb of Queen Cleopatra really be found?
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WILDMAN: I'm in Egypt searching for Queen Cleopatra's tomb.
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Here at Taposiris, Dr. Kathleen Martinez is using
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scanning technology to find Cleopatra.
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This is the big reveal.
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Yes.
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We were standing here looking down, yes?
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Yes, we were standing here.
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Wow, so what are you seeing here?
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Mm-hmm.
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Interesting.
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So tell me what you'll do with this data.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Interesting.
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Mm-hmm.
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Genius. Can you take me underground here?
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Yes.
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So you have mapped through the entire site?
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Mm-hmm.
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Eventually the idea is to find the tomb of Cleopatra.
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Yes.
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Yeah, I mean, you're very confident. I am.
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I'm with you on this.
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And imagine the whole world will be able
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to take this journey.
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Incredible.
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For over 2,000 years, Cleopatra has endured as one
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of the most enigmatic
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and fascinating women of history.
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Though her beauty and tantalizing powers
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of seduction have dominated the narrative,
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we often forget that for 20 years,
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she ruled one of the great civilizations
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of the ancient world.
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She negotiated with foreign powers
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and presided over temples.
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She was a scientist, a philosopher, a poet,
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and a politician and a goddess.
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And for a brief, fleeting moment, she held the fate
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of the Western world in her hands.
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In the end, Cleopatra lost everything.
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But her epically dramatic life
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and theatrical death transformed her story into legend,
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a legend we still live with today.
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