The Mysterious Death of the Last Pharaoh of Egypt

According to a DVD I just saw (bought from a complex at Siam Area @ Bangkok) - which proposes a very strong theory as suggested by a cold case criminal investigator, Pat Brown.

Here goes...

She was the last in the line amongst the Pharaohs who have ruled Egypt for over three (3) thousand years. Upon her death, her kingdom was entirely absorbed by Octavian, a young ruler of Rome who previously defeated her and her lover, Mark Antony.

Cleopatra. By far, the causes of her death as according to two historians has been suicide alongside her maids, either by snakebite or by drinking poison, which occured during their last days as captive under Octavian.

According to history, shortly before Cleopatra took the plunge to eternity, she had sent a suicide note to Octavian, and upon Octavian and his guards hasty rush to where Cleopatra was held captive, she was found dead with her maids already dying.

Through Brown's thorough research, which included submerging underwater into the once glorious city, Alexandria, where Cleopatra died - she was able to ruled out both suicide methods as written down in history for over 2000 years.


- Brown's diagnosis -Cleopatra was murdered by Octavian, the person who held her captive.

Motive: Cleopatra's son, Caesarion, was the direct descendant of Julius Caesar, which would mean having the right to claim the throne of Rome, thus posing a threat to Octavian's rule over Rome.

Caesarion, then went away few days before to another place, was however subsequently hunted down, and murdered under Octavian.

It was early into the reigns of Octavian literally over the entire Rome. He previously ruled one half of Rome, with the other half being ruled over by his rival, Mark Antony. Thus, having time on his side, he could thoroughly recreate a whole different scenario of how he would want the murder to go down in history. Recreation of the crime scene, and by his memoirs which then influenced certain two historians in writing their account of how Cleopatra might have died.


Writer's note:
Sam feels ... one word. Wow.