Cleopatra, daughter of Ptolemy XII, and his successor to the throne of Egypt in 51 BC, committed suicide at the age of 39 on this day in August, according to what few historians believe, or on the 10th of it, according to most of them. However, the year was 30 BC, and for most of the 2,051 years that have passed since her departure, historians see her as the most influential among the women of the ancient world, and the most famous in Egypt at that time, but we do not find anything that we touch from her, except what “Al Arabiya.net” publishes his picture, which is Her signature on a papyrus, with two words that a Dutch archaeologist confirms, and his German counterparts, are in her handwriting.
Almost 20 years ago, German archaeologists have been studying the papyrus that was found by chance by a Dutch archaeologist. Peter Van Minnen is among the archives of the Egyptian Museum in the German capital Berlin, and then research ended a while ago to confirm that what is in the papyrus is nothing but the signature of Cleopatra, who saw the light in 69 BC in Alexandria, and in which she committed suicide in a way that no one is certain of so far, although a film A famous Hollywood produced in 1963 and played by the late American Elizabeth Taylor, it is mentioned that she came with a snake biting her, and below is a video from the movie, when she visited Rome during the time of Julius Caesar, and enchanted everyone with a beautiful and majestic arrival.
As for the papyrus that It was found by a German archaeological expedition It was built in 1904 at an archaeological site near the village of “Abu Sir” in the Egyptian governorate of Giza. It is small, 20 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters long, according to what the agencies reported from the Dutch scientist last year, and it was also reported that the last Egyptian queen “written two words in her handwriting at the bottom” are γινέσθωι. Greek of that era, or what Ginestoi said, bearing the meaning of “let it be,” indicating her approval of what was written in the papyrus dated, corresponding to February 23, 33 BC. Thousands of sacks, known at that time as Artaba, of wheat, a total of 295 tons, plus an import of 5,000 jars of wine, or two-handled Amphora “tax free” so her signature was necessary from the Queen “who added the last “i” to the Ginesthoi By mistake,” which caused confusion to scholars, who considered that Cleopatra might not have written the two words, the most prominent of whom was the German professor, Heinz Heinen, an expert in the history of the Ptolemies and manuscripts. And he committed suicide
The professor considered, “Such a mistake is not committed by an intellectual like Cleopatra, but rather an official of a much lower rank,” as he considered Others, whose opinions “Al-Arabiya.net” read in a report published by the Chilean Emol magazine, also included the Dutch scientist, that a letter by mistake in the word “does not oppose the fact that the document and signature are original”, adding that “Canidius” whose name is mentioned in it, is the Roman commander Publius Canidius Crassus. The confidant of Cleopatra’s lover and her husband, Marcus Antony, who joined him in a naval battle called “Actium” and the two fought two years after the date of the papyrus, i.e. 31 BC, against the forces of Augustus Caesar, known as Octavian.
They also said, that no Ginesthoi writes only the only one who has the authority to issue orders, which is Cleopatra who accompanied Marco Antonio two years later to that battle he lost, in which “Octaviane” achieved a crushing victory, so her husband fled and she returned to Alexandria to gather her forces, and after weeks her husband joined her, but Octavian struck A siege on him, so he lost many of his ships, then events accelerated and Cleopatra did what she could to avoid the disaster, so she holed up inside a shrine, and Antony received When news of her suicide, he rushed in turn and threw himself on his sword and committed suicide, then it turned out that the news of her suicide was fake, so she continued to live, but with sadness his depression led her to commit suicide on such days.
