Archaeologists Discover Cleopatra and Aphrodite Statues

An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a Aphrodite mask believed to be Mark Antony’s have been found near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, according to Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass.

Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt, and Mark Anthony a ruler of Rome after Caesar’s death. The pair were famous lovers and each committed suicide in 30 BC after Anthony lost a Roman civil war.

The statue of Aphrodite and a headless royal statue from the Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt between 323 and 30 BC, were discovered by a joint Egyptian-Dominican Republic team of archeologists who were looking for Cleopatra’s tomb.

“We have found nothing that indicates the presence of the tomb,” he said, adding that the search for the tombs will restart in November.

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