Headless Egypt King Statue Found; Link to Cleopatra's Tomb?
Find adds to clues Egypt's last queen may lie in Taposiris Magna, dig leaders say.
For the past five years archaeologists have been searching around the temple of Taposiris Magna, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) west of the port city of Alexandria (map), in hopes of finding the couple's graves.
(See pictures related to the new National Geographic exhibit "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt.")
The newfound black granite statue—which stands about 6 feet (1.8 meters) without its head—is thought to be of King Ptolemy IV, because an unattached cartouche carved of the same type of stone and bearing his name was found near the figure's base. (See a
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