Cleopatra

Where does c'ieopatra's ooüy rest? Searcely a layman who would not answer: "Why, in Egypt." Af ter her caJoleries, her wlles, her life of intense if not very exalted lovee, Cleopatra was laid in one of the loveliest tombs that have ever been fashloned by the hand of man. But what a change 2,000 yeare hae brought about! Today an ugly mummy with an emblematic lunch of decayed wheat and a coarse comb tled to its head - mere roll ol tlghtly swathed duet- lies crumbling in a hldeous glass case at the Brltlsh museum. It is Cleopatra, the once great (jueon, a Venus In charm, beauty and love. "To what base uses may we