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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Tunnel found by archaeologists in Egyptian temple thought to hold Cleopatra’s lost tomb

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a vast underground tunnel at a temple that is thought to contain the long-lost tomb of Cleopatra.

The tunnel - spanning the length of more than 12 football pitches and carved into rock approximately 13 metres below the ground - was found during excavations at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of Egypt’s second-largest city, Alexandria.

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