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Perhaps not many people outside the Dominican Republic know who is Kathleen MartÃnez. She is a criminal lawyer and practiced her profession in Santo Domingo. Her life long passion has always been Cleopatra from Ancient Egypt, which at that time was the richest and most powerful woman in the world. Kathleen's quest hasn't been easy, but so far she has gained so much.
Discrimination for being from a small unknown country
In 2004 Kathleen and a cousin arrived at Cairo, Egypt for the first time. Little did she know this was the beginning of a roller coaster ride. Extremely excited to finally made it to Egypt after years of reading about Cleopatra and happy to put in practice her theories. As soon as she reached immigration at the Cairo Airport things began to fall apart. Her extreme happiness turn to fear when the immigration officer went with their Dominican passport into a room, a sign of trouble despite he told them "no problem." When he came out, he said "Mickey Mouse passports" and both women were arrested and put in a room with other terrorrists. They were held in that room for over 24 hours. During that time they were asked by Egyptian investigators with what terrorrist organization were they affiliated and their response was always the same: "we are from the Dominican Republic." After the INTERPOL international investigation on "these terrorrists" was concluded and given to Egyptian officials, the two women were finally given their freedom back and one Egyptian immigration officer says "Welcome to Egypt!" lol Obviously, the women were furious telling him how can he tell them welcome to Egypt when they were arrested and put in this room with terrorrists for over a day and hardly any water and any food. The guy responded "a country that doesn't have an embassy in Cairo doesn't exist!" At that time the Dominican Republic didn't have an embassy in Cairo, so when the Egyptian immigration officer said these are "Mickey Mouse passports," he meant they were from a country that didn't exist, aka they were fake. It took an international criminal investigation for them to realize the Dominican Republic is an actual country and their passport were legitimate.
Discrimination for being a woman, from an unimportant country and a graduate of an unheard of university
Kathleen explains that when she went to the world's top Ancient Egypt archeologist to propose her theory of where Cleopatra's remains could be, he was predisposed against her. He even told her that she was from some unimportant country as part of the reason he didn't took her seriously. Imagine, here is this pesky woman in a very men dominated country from some country no one heard of and some university no one heard of either telling the top archeologist in Ancient Egypt where Cleopatra's remains could be. She reprimanded him by saying that the only reason he was adamant towards her was because she is a woman from a country and university he never heard of, that if she was from Harvard he would have a different attitude towards her. After her was a group of Harvard University graduates he also witnessed how Kathleen was being treated and her theory completely unheard. The Harvard team seeing this blatant discrimination decided to have a word with her and had her explain to them what her theory was in order for them to present it to him, because obviously the guy was completely deaf to anything she had to say by this point. The Harvard team confronted the archeologist by presenting Kathleen's theory, for which he was very interested. They explained that this was not of their creation, but rather of the woman he refused to hear before their turn. She was given two months (which in archeology is nothing) to go to the archeologist areas in Egypt and prove she is worthy of getting serious attention from the world's foremost Egyptologists. Despite the very obvious intent to sweep her away once and for all, during the very constricted time she was given she had discovered secret passages to vsrious tombs these "world's most foremost egyptologist" had spent years and never found. Moreover, she discovered the foundational stone of Taposiris Magna, something that several world reknown archeologists had devoted years in search of to no avail. A Hungarian archeologist went as far as writting a book that Taposiris Magna was never completed because he devoted 7 years in search of the foundational stone and never found it. Here comes this woman from some country and university no one has heard of and finds it in such a short time. She says the Hungarian archeologist told her he was going back to Hungary to commit suicide, because he can't understand how he spent 7 years walking over the very spot where the foundational stone was located, working on that site and never found it. Then this unknown woman from nowhere appears and find it in such a short time. Needless to say, the world's top Ancient Egypt archeologists now listen to anything Kathleen MartÃnez has to say.
Latin America Hardly Has An Impact In Ancient Egypt Archeology
Kathleen MartÃnez discovered that Latin America has no say in the world of Ancient Egypt archeology. Latin American archeologists in Egypt are basically unheard of, making her the foremost face of Latin America in this field. Not long ago The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt; which houses the most extensive Ancient Egypt artifacts in the world, conducted a presentation of the findings by Kathleen MartÃnez. She says that for the first time ever the flag of the Dominican Republic was on display, the first flag on display of any country in Latin America. This surprised everybody including the few Dominicans that were there and the last thing they were expecting was to see the flag of their "little unknown and unimportant country" on full display in this place. Furthermore, in addition to her pride of being a Latin American woman, the video with her narrating her findings gaved in a country where Arabic and English are the most common languages, out of her own decision her's was in Spanish (despite she is fluent in English too) as a demonstration that this the findings from a Latin American, another first in Egypt.
In Love with Egypt
She says that despite the rocky welcome to Egypt the first time she went there, she is in love with Egypt and particularly Alexandria where she spends most of her time there. She says that her plans for the future includes splitting her time between the Dominican Republic and Egypt.
There is not much about her in English, but the following videos were found. Considering the level of importance achieved by her in what essentially is a field dominated by men, where on top of that Latin Americans are unheard of and all the discoveries she has made thus far; there should be much more about her in English.
Quest for the Tomb of Cleopatra at Taposiris Magna (feat. Dr. Kathleen Martinez)
Kathleen MartÃnez has done it again putting Dominicans, Latinos, Caribbean, and women in general contributions to Egyptian archeology at the forefront! Now discovering an unknown monumental tunnel-aqueduct system from the Graeco-Roman period.
Add this to the long list of discoveries she has made over the years starting with the time no one believed her and took her seriously. As she has said in previous interviews, she felt the fact she is a woman was a reason for discounting her in the beginning. How things change...
In Photos: Ancient Greek-replica monumental tunnel-aqueduct system discovered west of Alexandria
Nov 3, 2022
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The Dominican-Egyptian expedition led by Kathleen Martinez unearthed a monumental tunnel-aqueduct system and various royal busts and statues, potentially dating to the Graeco-Roman period, near the Ptolemaic-period Taposiris Magna temple in Borg El-Arab, west of the city of Alexandria on the Mediterranean.
I believe the francois de couleur clan by the name of Dumas might be one of the most recognizable (for better or worse) of the creoles that operated on the marrano (including mozarabe & morisco) mid-land sea northern fringe of the east indian companymen of Suez (& by extension Misr, i.e., Qairene), Iscandria to Algiers.
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