CLEOPATRA: THE TOMB THEY NEVER FOUND: The Death, the Search, and the 2,000-Year Mystery

More than two thousand years after her death, Cleopatra’s lost tomb has still never been found.

The final resting place of Cleopatra VII remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of ancient Egypt. Ancient writers claimed that Cleopatra and Mark Antony were buried together, yet no confirmed tomb has ever been identified. Was the tomb of Cleopatra hidden in Alexandria, lost beneath the Mediterranean, or placed near the ancient temple complex of Taposiris Magna?

In CLEOPATRA: THE TOMB THEY NEVER FOUND, James P. Patterson investigates the evidence behind one of history’s most famous missing burial sites and reopens the mystery of Cleopatra’s final days, death, and disappearance from the archaeological record.

This book examines the major questions surrounding Cleopatra’s tomb, including the collapse of Ptolemaic Egypt, the death of Mark Antony, the Roman conquest of Alexandria, and the competing accounts of Cleopatra’s suicide. It also follows the modern archaeological search across Alexandria, underwater ruins, and Taposiris Magna, where ongoing discoveries continue to fuel speculation about the location of the queen’s burial.

Readers will explore:

• The mystery of Cleopatra’s lost tomb
• The death of Mark Antony and Cleopatra
• The ancient accounts of Cleopatra’s suicide
• The theory that Cleopatra died by the bite of an asp
• The monument Cleopatra may have prepared before her death
• The lost royal quarter of ancient Alexandria
• Submerged ruins beneath the Mediterranean
• The archaeological search at Taposiris Magna
• Cleopatra’s connection to Isis and Egyptian royal religion
• The evidence for and against the leading burial theories
• What archaeologists would need to finally prove the location of Cleopatra’s tomb

This is not a book that pretends the mystery has been solved. It is an investigation into what the ancient sources actually say, what Egyptian archaeology has uncovered, and why Cleopatra’s burial place remains missing after more than two thousand years.

For readers fascinated by ancient Egypt, Cleopatra, Egyptian archaeology, lost tombs, Mark Antony, Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt, unsolved historical mysteries, ancient civilizations, and archaeological mysteries, this book follows the evidence wherever it leads.

Cleopatra died in 30 BC.

Her tomb existed.

People once knew where it was.

Today, the world is still searching.