Abavubukuli bamemezele ukuthi sebeseduze kakhulu nokuthola indawo lapho umbusi wokugcina waseGibhithe, uCleopatra, nesithandwa sakhe, ujenene waseRoma uMark Antony, bangcwatshwa khona, cishe ndawonye.
Ososayensi bakholelwa ukuthi baye bakhomba indawo eqondile lapho kungcwatshwa khona abantu abanethonya elikhulu emlandweni wesintu.
Ithuna elingaqondakali likaCleopatra noMark Antony ekugcineni lizotholakala. Itholakala endaweni yaseTaposiris Magna, cishe amakhilomitha angama-30 ukusuka e-Alexandria, kusho umvubukuli odumile waseGibhithe uZahi Hawass ( osesithombeni).
“Ngilindele maduze nje ukuthi ngihlangane nethuna labo lapho bebekwe khona bobabili. Sisendleleni efanele futhi sazi kahle ukuthi kufanele simbe kuphi ukuze siwuthole,” kuqinisekisa uHawass, owayengungqongqoshe wezokuvakasha e-Egypt.
UCleopatra noMark Antony bazibulala ngo-30 BC. Ngaleso sikhathi, umbusi waseGibhithe, ummeleli wokugcina obusayo wozalo lukaPtolemaic, wayeneminyaka engu-39 ubudala, kanti uMark Antony wayeneminyaka engu-53 ubudala, kuphawula i-20minutos.
Emuva ngo-February 2013, abacwaningi bamemezela ukuthi bathole amathambo kadadewabo kaCleopatra owabulawa, u-Arsinoe IV, eTurkey. Izinsalela zatholwa kusukela ngo-1985 ethempelini eliyincithakalo edolobheni lasendulo lamaGreki i-Efesu (namuhla elisentshonalanga yeTurkey). Umvubukuli othi uthole amathambo unethemba elikhulu ngamasu amasha okucwaninga ukuze abone ngokucacile okutholakele.
Uma uthi nhlá, kubonakala sengathi izinsalela zingezalowo owabulawa eminyakeni engaphezu kwe-2,000 edlule ngomyalo weNdlovukazi u-Arsinoe. Kodwa abaphikisana nalo mbono bakholelwa ukuthi ukuhlolwa kwe-DNA ngeke kuqinisekise ukuthi amathambo kabani ngoba asecutshungulwe izikhathi eziningi. Kodwa-ke, ososayensi abavela e-Austrian Academy of Sciences abenze lokhu kutholakala bayaqiniseka ukuthi izinsalela zingezenkathi yakudala yomndeni wasebukhosini baseGibhithe.
UPrincess Arsinoe kukholakala ukuthi ungudadewabo omncane kaCleopatra. Ubaba wabo kukholakala ukuthi kwakunguPtolemy XII Auletus, kodwa akwaziwa ukuthi bobabili bebephuma kumama oyedwa yini.
Kuyaziwa ukuthi laba ababili bebengathandani. Ngemuva kokubulawa kukaKhesari, uCleopatra uqinisekisa isithandwa sakhe uMark Antony ukuthi abulale u-Arsinoe, njengoba ebona imbangi yakhe emzabalazweni wokubusa.
