Cleopatra: These years together have been the happiest of my life. Mark Antony: We lived, didn't we. Cleopatra: We did. (HBO Rome)
It is worth mentioning that Antony and Cleopatra were finally reunited in death. Their bodies were either embalmed according to traditional Egyptian customs, inhumed, or cremated, but they were interred together. Octavian had allowed Cleopatra to care for the body of Antony and to give it a proper burial first. Then he made sure the Egyptian monarch was laid to rest next to him when she too took her own life. We don't actually know where this fabled tomb is, though many have tried to find it. In 2009, archaeologist Zahi Hawass announced with little evidence that the tomb of Antony and Cleopatra might have been discovered. He claimed a temple dedicated to the god Osiris called Taposiris Magna (built under Ptolemy II) just west of Alexandria was where they were buried.
Dio remarks that Antony immediately wished for his own death: "He first asked one of the bystanders to slay him; but when the man drew his sword and slew himself, Antony wished to imitate his courage and so gave himself a wound and fell upon his face, causing the bystanders to believe that he was dead." Plutarch instead notes that he rammed the sword into his stomach, but still did not immediately die of his wound. In reality, the wound had not killed him and he was hoisted into the mausoleum, where he later allegedly died at Cleopatra's side, likely on the night of August 1.
