Cleopatra

The coastline near Taposiris Magna is a jagged meeting of limestone ridge and sea.  For a modern visitor, the roar of the Mediterranean is constant.  For Iras, it was the sound of a desperate, last chance. 

Archaeologists excavating the Taposiris Magna tunnel have found it partially collapsed and blocked.  The conventional explanation is earthquake damage.  But what if some of that collapse was not an act of nature,  but an act of will?  A deliberate, desperate act to hide a secret so great that those who knew it had to bury themselves along with it?

Featured image: The moment Iras stepped into the tunnel, the world of the living vanished. Her single lamp cast a frantic, dancing light against the walls, a fragile point of life in the overwhelming dark. In 2022, archaeologists uncovered a staggering feat of engineering at Taposiris Magna: a tunnel, 1,305 meters long, carved 20 meters…

The necropolis of Taposiris Magna, with its vaulted tombs and mummies facing the temple, speaks of a community expecting eternity.  But on this night, two new souls were added to their number, not with public ceremony, but in frantic secrecy. 

The sacred Lake Mareotis was the lifeblood of Taposiris Magna, a bustling channel for the region’s famous wine and trade.  But on the night of August 12, 30 BC, its waters bore a different kind of cargo—a funerary barge carrying the hopes of a dying dynasty. 

The secret burial of Cleopatra & Mark Antony begins. As Rome falls on Alexandria, a priestess at Taposiris Magna receives a signal that will change history. Based on real archaeological discoveries.