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Secrets of the Dead

This Cleopatra Coin Has Been Lost Underwater For 2,000 years

Season 22 Episode 8 | 2m 24s

Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s iconic queen, left behind few traces of her reign. Beneath the harbor of modern-day Alexandria, archaeologists have uncovered ancient coins bearing her image amid the ruins of a temple where she may have once worshipped. Historians believe this temple stood on the island of Antirhodos, which ultimately sank into the Mediterranean Sea following a series of earthquakes.

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