http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-cleo18-2009apr18,0,2639966.story 22 Coins found so far. Can anyone confirm/comment on pics
I have been reading about this for several days. Apparantly this guy has found a temple with numerous shafts that he thinks one of which may hold the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Some of the coins found show a beautiful Cleopatra as opposed to ugly as shown on previously-known coins. It will interesting to see where this story goes.
On Roman coins, Cleopatra is depicted as ugly. On Egyptian, she's beautiful. I'm surprised that nobody has suggested that this is a facet of the portraiture styles of the two areas! In Rome, portraits were hyper-veristic, but in Ptolemaic Egypt, idealized Hellenistic portraits were the norm. That's why Ptolemy I-XII all looked the same.
Well if it turns out to actualy be there buirial spot then it looks like her family will be coming together again LOL there was a good documentry about her sister on tv a few weeks ago http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5908494.ece
Ancient coin dulls Cleopatra's beauty Was the celebrated queen a sharp-nosed woman with a protruding chin? I see what you mean!
Oh goody, an ambiguous acronym: Jpe? Just plain English? Just plain Egyptian? The ‘e’ is not capitalized so it may not be either? Idsaw: I don’t speak acronyms well. Btw, Llap (Dif-tor heh smusma) Pap Pall
nothing to learn we go in we get the coins and we come out. we will have others to make sure we can get in and out
There has been many news articles about this in the last few days. It was interesting to read the article about how an archeologist argues about how history has painted cleopatra. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/19/egypt.cleopatra.mystery/index.html?iref=newssearch http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/17/cleopatra.tomb/index.html?iref=newssearch
It should be noted that Rome did not frame those considered lesser than themselves in a positive light--Tacitus is just one example of selective history. Here I seem to recall that Rome held an unfavorable view of Cleopatra, because she claimed her son Caesarion, the only child of Julius Caesar, as rightful heir to the Roman Republic. Rome valued Egypt more as their breadbasket than for their Ptolemaic/Pharaonic legacy. Reportedly, Octavian (Augustus Caesar) killed Caesarion, commenting that "Two Caesars is one too many".
Why would a powerful Roman settle for an ugly women , ah power and money can make some men do strange things . rzage
