Since the early 1990s, the topographical surveys have enabled the research team led by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio to conquer Alexandria’s seaport. The field of vision is clearer. “This place is a unique site in the world,” said Goddio who has spent two decades searching for the lost city. This photograph is from the quest that took a team of divers to the temple and palace complex of Isis. This is a fundamental and essential part of the palace compound. The goddess Isis was exceptional to Cleopatra. Isis was the goddess of magic and power. – Stone of Destiny
Cleopatra is reputed to have already been schooled in the mysteries of Isis and Osiris, and the priests of those gods were very powerful. Isis and Osiris were thought to have means of clairvoyance, telepathy and magic, which legend says were educated to the young princess.
It’s in this temple, in a small room known as “The Sphere of Destiny,” that Cleopatra was supposed to have kept a sizable quartz block. It had a smooth polished surface in regards to the size on one of the upper faces of the rock.
By scrying into that dark mirror that Cleopatra was designed to have the ability to see the past and future, it was, talk to her generals and it was said, she was to first see the faces of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
This rock of power was called the “Eye of Cleopatra,” or “Cleopatra’s Eye” and was rumored to be as old as Egypt itself. After the departure of Cleopatra and Antony, the rock disappeared never to be viewed again. Could it be buried somewhere here beneath the bay?
It was in the Temple of Isis where Cleopatra’s love affair with all the Roman general Antony took place–his rooms were there. The pair allegedly committed suicide in the Civil War, after the defeat of his former allies Octavian. Octavian then appeared using the name.
Teams of divers find a central area in the life of Cleopatra and Antony, the sensational pair whose love was so well-known, like the Timonium where Antony withdrew following Octavian’s defeat from the outside world. The building has not yet been finished because Antony committed suicide.
They also located a large head-shaped stone monument, which can be strongly suspected as that son of Cleopatra and her lover before Antony, Julius Caesar. Much is made of the last days of Cleopatra’s rule, but in reality, the complex is revealing of her entire reign and her industrious and brilliant military, architectural and artistic knowledge. Wit and cleopatra’s brain were more very important to her success than her beauty. Cleopatra seemed to have resources and knowledge way beyond that of those she coped with, as well as the scribes attributed this to her profound Egyptian magic. – Stone of Destiny
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