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Crossroads Roundup: (Potential) Face of Cleopatra, St. Nick's Tomb, and Good News for Books

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Dec 12, 2024
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Happy Roundup! Don’t forget that today is the last day to take advantage of the Crossroads Anniversary Sale, in which you’ll receive 20% off the first year of an annual subscription. Paid subscribers receive exclusive, weekly essays and the full archive, including essays older than six months:

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The coolest woman on Earth, and Cleopatra:

Egyptian bust of a Ptolemaic princess (potentially Cleopatra). Via the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

In 2022, the Dominican archaeologist Dr. Kathleen Martinez made the discovery of a lifetime.

After twenty years of relentlessly searching for the burial place of Cleopatra—which she suspects to be hiding under the temple complex of Taposiris Magna—Martinez and her team found a massive tunnel beneath the temple stretching over 4,300 feet (roughly 1,310 meters). Sitting 43 feet (13 meters) underground with a height of over six feet (1.8 meters), the tunnel was called a “geometric miracle” by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism …

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