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A lawyer turned archaeologist joins forces with Titanic explorer Bob Ballard to hunt for the Eqyptian ruler’s tomb
Year: 2026
Kathleen Martinez has spent 20 years searching for the final resting place of Cleopatra. Her efforts have been focused in northern Egypt, and the lawyer-turned archaeologist has certainly made discoveries over the years, but could she actually be on the verge of finding the tomb of the Egyptian ruler?
Whatever the outcome of this one-off documentary that follows her efforts, watching it functions as portrait of her determination, and a solid myth-busting primer on Cleopatra, too, exploring how her legacy was altered by those who wrote the history of the time – the Romans, who portrayed her as a witchy seductress. You can see all too easily how that image that carried over into our popular culture, too.
It’s a mark of Martinez’s standing that, for this one-off film, the lawyer-turned-archaeologist has been joined by Bob Ballard – the adventurer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic – as she probes a surprising tunnel that leads from a temple to the sea. Why was it built? And what could it tell us about Cleopatra’s last days? (66 minutes)
