It was a clean-cut opening sliced directly into bedrock — limestone carved with intention.
No rubble.
No slow erosion.
This was engineering.
Martinez stepped into the opening and looked down the line of the tunnel.
It ran straight.
Perfectly straight.
Level.
Silent.
And far too large to be a ritual passage.
Another one swore under his breath.
An engineer reportedly whispered: “This is not a temple feature.”
Someone else said the thing nobody wanted to say out loud:
“This is a tomb shaft.”
Because the team had seen shafts like this before.
They lead to burials.
They lead to kings.
By the time news leaked that a major subterranean structure had been found, the online world erupted.
On TikTok, the comments turned into a war zone.
One user wrote: “Finally. This is the biggest discovery of our lifetime.”
Another snapped: “If it’s real, why are they being so cagey?”
And then came the darker ones:
“They’ll never let her be found. Too much power in that story.”
Martinez’s supporters flooded social media with screenshots of her interviews.
Her critics rolled their eyes and called it hype.
But the dig kept going.
And that’s when the story took a turn nobody expected.
Because Cleopatra’s tomb — if it really is Cleopatra’s — didn’t come with celebration.
It came with bodies.
Hundreds of them.
Not a handful.
Not a normal burial cluster around a sacred site.
More than 800 skeletons, according to reports.
And the deeper the excavation went, the more unsettling it became.
“We didn’t know how big it was,” one researcher said in a clip that’s now being shared like wildfire.
They found men.
Women.
Children.
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