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ANNOUNCEMENTS 86 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Announcements Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt The world of Cleopatra, which has been lost to sand and sea for nearly two thousand years, surfaces in this new exhibition, Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt. Organized by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology (IEASM), the exhibition features never before seen artifacts, and takes visitors inside the present-day search for Cleopatra, which extends from the sands of Egypt to the depths of the Bay of Aboukir near Alexandria. The exhibition opened at Cincinnati Museum Center on February 18 and will run through September 5. TICKET INFORMATION Individual tickets for Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt range from $15 to $23, which includes an audio tour. Tickets are timed and dated, and admission is 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays (last entry at 5 p.m.), 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays (last entry at 8 p.m.), 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays (last entry at 6 p.m.). There are discounts available for groups of fifteen or more and for Museum Center Members. Due to high ticket demand, advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended. One of the finest finds from the bay of Aboukir is a remarkable Graeco-Egyptian product of the Ptolemaic era—a statue of a Ptolemaic queen in dark stone wearing the usual robe that identifies the sovereigns of Isis incarnate. Found at the site of Heracleion, the statue is certainly one of the queens of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Most likely, a representation of Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III, dressed as the goddess Isis. The hair, whose plaited tresses are handled with entirely naturalistic detail, is crowned with a diadem decorated with the uraeus-snake. ...