The Murder of Cleopatra (33 page)

Face-to-face with a marble head of a Ptolemaic queen from the first century BCE at the Musei Capitolini, Rome. ©
Atlantic Productions Ltd.

Underwater archeologist Jean-Yves Empereur helps prepare Pat to dive in Alexandria Harbor to see the ruins of the alleged Cleopatra's palace. ©
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The amphitheater in Ephesus where Cleopatra and Antony sojourned with their fleet while making their way to the Battle of Actium. Ephesus, once a Greek and Roman city, is six miles from the Aegean Sea in present-day Turkey.
Photo by Pat Brown.

Ruins of ancient temples mix in with the modern buildings of today's Rome.
Photo by Pat Brown.

Pharoah Cheops's funerary boat at the Solar Boat Museum in Giza.
Photo by Pat Brown.

Depiction of the making of Cheops's boat in the Solar Boat Museum.
Artist unknown.

The Temple of Karnak gives us an idea of the height of the windows and the roof in an ancient Egyptian temple. Plutarch claims Cleopatra and her handmaidens hauled the dying Antony up by a rope into a window or onto the roof of the building into which she had locked herself.
Photo by Jennifer Walker.

The hypostyle hall at Luxor (without its roof).
Photo by Pat Brown.

The magnificent columns of the hypostyle hall in the Temple of Isis at Dendera.
Photo by Pat Brown.

Egyptologist Dr. Said Gohary explains to Pat the meanings of the reliefs on the walls of the Temple of Isis at Dendera.
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Reliefs of Cleopatra (as Isis) with her son Caesarion.
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Approximation of Lower Egypt and the Canal of the Pharaohs.