Santo Domingo. - The Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez Wednesday affirmed to have found 27 tombs and 10 mummies, two of them wrapped in gold, during the excavation she conducts in Egypt in search of Cleopatra’s resting place.

Martinez, an official in the Dominican Embassy in Egypt, said she still doesn’t know if among the mummies is Cleopatra’s, but noted that she’s on the trail, as the latest findings have been unearthed since December.

She said the finding shows the real origin of the mummified bodies and confirms that the current ruins of the temple Taposiris Magna, located in the outskirts Alexandria, in Egypt, are where the pharaohs’ remains are buried.

The excavations have taken three years and are the result of Martinez’s most recent theory, stated before the Supreme Egyptian Antiquities Council in 2005. she said six Egyptian archaeologists and 40 workers participate in the digs, and will double the personnel as the result of the findings.

The archaeologist said in the tombs have been tables for offerings, wine and beer jars, 22 currencies with the images of Cleopatra and Alexander the Great and a funeral mask of a man with a fracture on the chin that says has bears a resemblance with the paintings of Marc Antony.

SOURCE: listin.com.do

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