For 20 years, National Geographic explorer and archaeologist Kathleen Martínez has been on a mission to find Cleopatra. Like all Egyptian kings and queens, Cleopatra VII was thought to be the embodiment of a divine being. Kathleen Martínez at the temple Taposiris Magna, which has become a site of interest in the search for Cleopatra. <span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span>A small head in the sand, easily missed were it not for the scanning technologies that showed up an anomaly in the ground. “The magnificent work that Dr Ballard and Dr Mayer did was to prepare a map, and from there we now have the coordinates.