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Accepted historical accounts claim that Cleopatra, the last active pharaoh of ancient Egypt, committed suicide. Cleopatra assumed the throne of Egypt after the demise of Alexander the Great during the Hellenistic period, but facing capture and humiliation at the hands of Octavian after the Battle of Actium, it has been recorded that held a snake to her body and allowed it to bite her, killing her with its poisonous venom. Memories of Cleopatra's life have vanished as monuments and palaces have fallen to ruins over the millennia. But the question still remains: did she really commit suicide, or was there something more sinister involved? [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"108966","attributes":{"alt":"The bust of Cleopatra VII at the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany. (Public domain)","class":"media-image","height":"630","style":"width: 421px; height

The Tierra Firme flota, which was made up of twenty ships, left the Havana port of Cuba on their way for Spain on September 4 th, 1622. These ships carried the wealth of an empire along with crew, soldiers and passengers. The next day, the fleet was hit by a hurricane as it entered into the Florida straits. By the next morning eight of the ships were on the ocean floor scattered from the Marquesas Keys to the Dry Tortugas. The Nuestra Senora de Atocha (“Our Lady of Atocha”), a heavily armed galleon, sailed as Almirante (rear guard). For added protection, the Nuestra bore the name of the holiest of shrines in Madrid. The Atocha was carrying a vast treasure

In a dark and murky bog in the damp meadows of Alken, Denmark, archaeologists made a startling discovery – the bodies of what appeared to be an entire army of soldiers dating back some 2,000 years. More than two hundred ancient warrior skeletons were unearthed in 2009, along with a small number of spearheads, shields, clubs, and axes, and scientists have been studying them ever since, trying to piece together their final moments. The excavation took place in an area close to Jutland's Lake in Denmark, and it was no easy task as the bodies were some two meters below the surface of the thick bog. According to Ejvind Hertz, Curator of Archeology at Skanderborg Museum, the low-oxygen content of