The Deadly Well of Queen Cleopatra-Dr. Zahi Hawass

It is another story with Queen Cleopatra that may indicate that she does not love me and does not want us to reach her tomb. I may have fallen in love with Cleopatra, as at the beginning of my life, I met the artist Elizabeth Taylor when she came to visit the Giza pyramids along with the great writer Kamal Al Malakh.

On that day, I saw the most beautiful eyes of modern Cleopatra and asked her about her love affairs with "Mark Anthony", and I meant actor Richard Burton, who played the role of "Anthony.

Meeting with Elizabeth Taylor had a great effect for me to start digging for the tomb of the famous queen.

In the temple of Taposiris-Magna, many tunnels were found that reach about 40 meters deep. I entered this well in an adventure that had never happened before. The Japanese TV came to make a movie with me about Queen Cleopatra, so I found that going inside this well with the most famous Japanese actress will make the Japanese live in this adventure, especially as they love this charming queen who loved the two strongest men in the ancient world, namely: Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony.

I believe that she wanted to rule the whole world through those two leaders had it not been for Octavius, who defeated Mark Antony in the famous Battle of Actium and eliminated Cleopatra's dream, and then committed suicide through the poison of the cobra snake, meaning that she wanted to die a royal death from the symbol of the king, which is the cobra.

I found inside the temple of Tabosiris - Magna, a well whose end appears to be the entrance to the tomb of Cleopatra, but the foreman told me: “We call this well (the deadly well) because there are some workers who went down and did not come back again.” But I replied that I will do it.

I called on the workers to tie me with ropes and send me down inside this well until I reached a distance of 9 meters, and I found that I won't be able to reach the bottom of the well, so I asked for a machine to be brought.

Indeed, about a month after the first adventure, the box was brought in, and there were about 20 ambassadors from South America and others visiting the temple, and I went down to the box to about 30 meters, and then I found that it was difficult to get down more than that, so I called my colleagues to withdraw the box, but something weird occurred that the machine had completely broken down, so it became impossible to pull the box up.

I looked down to find that there was underground water underneath me, and then I looked up and heard the screams of workers and colleagues, and I spent more than an hour in this situation, and I did not imagine that I would get out of this deadly well, but it seems that the Queen had mercy on me and the machine was repaired and Cleopatra saved my life.