Exclusive: Ancient port from Cleopatra’s time found underwater in Egypt

For two decades, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez, an outsider in the world of archaeology, has searched for Queen Cleopatra’s tomb in hidden, underground sites that others discounted. Many archaeologists think Cleopatra, Egypt’s last pharaoh and Ptolemaic ruler, died and was buried near the royal palace in Alexandria, where she was born and ruled. Martínez, a criminal lawyer-turned-archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, has been piecing together Cleopatra’s past like a crime scene to be deciphered. Her quest has led her instead to Taposiris Magna, an overlooked temple about 30 miles...