In an interview to Live Science, Zahi Hawass, the former minister of tourism and antiquities of Egypt who excavated the site in the past, stated that the statue was "not Cleopatra at all".
A visitor views the busts of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (ruled 51-30 BC), the last Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, and the Roman general Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), displayed alongside a statue ...