The Lost Baths of Cleopatra

The Ancients

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🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Cleopatra. Hers is one of the most famous names that endures from antiquity. The victor of a civil war. The mistress of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. The last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt. The protagonist of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. A fearsome leader and brilliantly astute politician. The whereabouts of her tomb remains one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. But what about the baths? Over the past year Dr Chris Naunton has been looking into old references to ‘Baths of Cleopatra’, a building supposedly somewhere under modern Alexandria. Where in the city could its remains be today? And could this building really have links to Cleopatra? In this podcast, Chris talks Tristan through his research into this lost building of ancient Alexandria

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on history hit.
0:05.7	I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast we'll let everyone's favorite Egyptologist
0:11.4	Dr. Chris Norton.
0:13.0	He is back on the podcast.
0:14.6	You might remember we had him on a few months ago to talk about ancient Egypt in the later
0:20.2	period of Egypt's history from the Libyans to the Assyrians to the Persians to Alexander,
0:26.4	the Great.
0:27.4	He proved one of our most popular podcasts ever and recently I went over to Chris's
0:32.2	house to interview him for a few more podcast episodes on some aspects of his most recent
0:38.6	work on lost monuments, lost tombs, lost buildings in and around the ancient and modern city
0:48.1	of Alexandria.
0:49.6	In this podcast we really go into a pet passion project of Chris's over the past year or
0:56.6	so and this is his search, his quest for a certain monumental building which antiquarians
1:04.0	had labelled the Baths of Cleopatra.
1:07.5	This is a great detective story as Chris looked through the records to see what he could
1:11.6	learn about these references to this ancient monument associated with one of the most famous
1:16.7	figures from ancient Mediterranean ancient Egyptian ancient Hellenistic history and without
1:23.3	further ado here's Chris.
1:26.6	Chris, could you tell you back on the podcast?
1:33.8	Thank you so much for having me back, it's a great pleasure.
1:36.7	No problem at all, always good to have you on the show and now we're going to be focusing
1:40.2	in on ancient Alexandria, I mean of all cities in Egypt's.
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