BLESSINGS!!: cleopatra

The exhibition is spread over more than 3,000 square metres and featuring nine interactive galleries.

The exhibition offers an immersive journey into Ancient Egypt, placing visitors inside the world of Queen Cleopatra, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The event has already run in Madrid, where it welcomed more than 200,000 visitors, further global dates are planned after London.

Alongside immersive technology, the exhibition showcases a curated selection of more than 22 original artefacts from the Hellenistic and Late Egyptian periods.

One Standout area is Cleopatra’s private chamber, where Cleopatra appears on interactive mirrors. A large interactive map of Alexandria features 5D sensory effects, including atmospheric scents.

The experience climaxes in a projection mapping and sound show projected onto a five-metre recreation of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The penultimate gallery immerses visitors in a 360-degree, 8t-metre-high cinematic projection space. The exhibition concludes with a seated VR experience, recreating the earthquake that submerged Alexandria beneath the sea and the search for Cleopatra’s lost tomb.

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Friday, 6 February 2026

From Dot to Cleopatra book reached Nigeria

I am pleased that through Books2Africa some of the last copies of my book "From Dot to Cleopatra" original paperback edition have reached happy readers in Nigeria.

This has encouraged me to release a new paperback edition and a hardcover edition both available on Amazon along with the Kindle edition.

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Hardback Edition of From Dot to Cleopatra

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919212949

From Dot to Cleopatra is precisely what it says: a hisstory of ancient Egypt suitable for everyone from the holiday traveller to the more serious student, it contains a wealth of information including tables of Gods, Pharoahs and Pyramide as well as a guide to visiting the ancient sites of modern Egypt.

Publisher's comments:
Alun Buffry's From Dot to Cleopatra takes out the confusion and presents the facts and the mystery in a plain-speaking guide which takes the reader from year dot before the beginning of recorded history to the time of Cleopatra's death. Thousands of years of Egyptian culture, with special reference to the pyramids, are recounted in a manner which does not baffle and assumes no previous knowledge of this history. The author leads us comfortably through a whole field of fact and theory recorded by antiquarians, archaeologists, pre-historians, treasure and fame hunters, even a crank or two! Here are the names, Nomes, Pharaohs, gods, kings, pyramids, obelisks, sphinxes and mummies, dynasty by dynasty: here, too, the legends, discoveries and great questions. At home or visiting Egypt, readers are saved much research as Alun Buffry gets to the core. He's a scientist, so he doesn't accept things as true unless they are proved, but he doesn't dismiss a theory because he doesn't agree with it. He is a fireside fabler and chronicler too, bringing us to our own conclusions as he tells the oldest stories which, with 'From Dot to Cleopatra', anyone can follow. This is an up-to-date reference book which can easily be read in a few days or dipped into for years. It includes a guides to the monuments and, a bonus for serious Egyptologists, the author's list of Pharaohs. You'll find plenty of mystery with the history, enough to share the fascination in Ancient Egypt which has lured explorers and amazed everyone else for centuries. Reader's comments: "I was never very interested in Ancient Egypt until I read "From Dot to Cleopatra", now I am fascinated by it." : Dr Anne Biezanek "Knowing Alun personally I decided to read his book. I am not a great reader but this was easy going. Every time I put it down I had to pick it up again soon, until I finished it. Now I will read it again. Alun writes as he talks, his humour is always there." : Jane Appleton, Housewife "We both thoroughly enjoyed From Dot to Cleopatra": Rev Robin and Rev Adrienne Scott "I can hardly believe how well you managed to include so much information on such a huge subject in such a small book in such a readable and presentable fashion." : John Adam, Web Designer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction WHEN WAS DOT? FACT, THEORY AND FICTION THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS GODS AND GODDESSES DIVINE PLAY TOMBS, PYRAMIDS AND MUMMIES THE GREAT PYRAMID OF CHEOPS : FACTS A MILLENNIUM AND A HALF MOSES, MAGIC AND WRITING THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY MORE RAMESSES THE LATE PERIOD AND THE GREEKS THE PTOLEMIES CLEOPATRA, JULIUS AND MARCUS DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT VISITING THE MONUMENTS GLOSSARY

First published in softback by Frontier 2000 Publishing, in 1997, the paperback version was so popular that it has been republished by ABeFree Publishing asa hardcover.

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

My Facebook Groups and Pages: Ancient Egypt, Cannabis, Justice, Rights

BLESSINGS!!

Saturday, 27 June 2026

INTRODUCING FROM DOT TO CLEOPATRA, A CONCISE HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT BY ALUN BUFFRY

Friday, 6 March 2026

'Cleopatra: The Experience’ immersive show opens in UK later this March