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Discovering Cleopatra's Palace

Witness: Archive 2012 by BBC

Dec 14, 20128:55Society & Culture

Twenty years ago a former economist from France, Franck Goddio, began underwater excavations which unearthed a 2000 year old palace belonging to Cleopatra. PHOTO: A diver eye-to-eye with a sphinx. ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Fo...

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Discovering Cleopatra's Palace is an episode from Witness: Archive 2012 by BBC. Twenty years ago a former economist from France, Franck Goddio, began underwater excavations which unearthed a 2000 year old palace belonging to Cleopatra. PHOT...

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Twenty years ago a former economist from France, Franck Goddio, began underwater excavations which unearthed a 2000 year old palace belonging to Cleopatra. PHOTO: A diver eye-to-eye with a sphinx. ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation. Photographer:Jérôme Delafosse

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