Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb

CAIRO - Doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony have been missing since they committed suicide in 30 B.C.

Now archeologists plan to excavate three sites in Egypt that could contain their tombs.

The celebrated queen of Egypt and the Roman general could have been buried in a deep shaft in a temple near the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement yesterday.

Excavation work on the sites will begin next week.

Archeologists last year unearthed the alabaster head of a Cleopatra statue, 22 coins bearing Cleopatra's image, and a mask believed to belong to Mark Antony at the temple.