Cleopatra's Lost Tomb: History's Greatest Missing Body

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“In the summer of 30 BCE, Cleopatra made a choice. She could be dragged through the streets of Rome”

in chains, or she could die on her own terms. She chose the ladder, and then something strange happened. The man who just destroyed her ordered that she be buried in a beautiful tomb right beside the man she loved. That tomb was real. We have the records to prove it. There's just one problem. In 2000 years of looking, no one has ever found it. I'm Dr. Huneba and this is Hidden History a rewind original powered by paved studios. On the show, we're exploring some of the most

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We're also on YouTube with full video that brings each episode to life just search at Hidden History pod and subscribe. Today I'm talking about one of history's most famous women, Cleopatra. She was one of the sharpest political minds of the ancient world, and when she died refusing to become a trophy for Rome, she was laid to rest in a lavish tomb beside her lover Mark Antony. That tomb

has never been found. And today, rival archaeologists are still hunting for it.

Let me introduce you to the real Cleopatra, because she's a lot more interesting than the legend. She was born in 69 BCE into a family that had been running Egypt for nearly 300 years. But here's the twist that surprises most people. Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian by blood. She was Greek. Her family, the Talimies, came to power things to Alexander the Great, who's own mysterious death was covered in a previous episode. When Alexander died in 323 BCE, his generals carved up

his empire like a pie, and one of them, a man named Talimie, grabbed the richest slice of all, Egypt. If you checked out her episode in Alexander, you'll remember him. He is the one who literally hijacked Alexander's dead body, every routed it to Egypt. It was a bold move, and it worked out for him. So for three centuries, Greek Macedonian kings ruled Egypt, almost all of them named Talimie, and almost all of them marrying their own sisters to keep the bloodline pure. Which genetically

“speaking was not their finest idea. And that wasn't the only way they kept themselves apart,”

almost none of them bothered to learn the language of the people they ruled. Cleopatra was different. She was reportedly the first Talimie in 300 years to actually learn Egyptian. She said to have spoken as Penny as nine languages. She was brilliant, politically ruthless.

And she understood something her ancestors never did. To truly rule Egypt, you had to become

Egyptian. So she did. Cleopatra presented herself as the living embodiment of the goddess Isis.

named Osiris, the god of the underworld in resurrection. And the myth went like this.

“Osiris was murdered, his body hid in a way, and Isis lovingly gathered him back and brought him”

back to life. Death, a hidden body, and a resurrection. The aim was that Cleopatra had no idea would echo in her own story, but that wouldn't be until much later. The city Cleopatra ruled from was one of the wonders of the ancient world, Alexandria. Founded by Alexander himself, it had the greatest library on earth in a lighthouse, the Pharaohs that stood some 40 stories tall, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The royal palaces sat right on the harbor, water

lapping at their walls. As for Cleopatra's reign, it was a non-stop political thriller. She became queen at her own 18, 51 BCE, forced to share the throne with her younger brother.

When that went sideways, she made an alliance with the most powerful man in the world. The Roman

general Julius Caesar, they became lovers, and she had his son, Cesare. Then Caesar got himself assassinated in 44 BCE. So Cleopatra did what she did best. She found the next most powerful man in the world. Mark Antony, one of Caesar's top generals, who became one of the most powerful men in Rome after the assassination. Antony and Cleopatra became one of history's great power couples, and one of his great love stories. They had three children together. And in 34 BCE,

Antony did something that would seal both their faiths. He starred handing over chunks of Roman controlled territory to Cleopatra and her kids. To the folks in Rome, this looked like betrayal, and one man in particular took it very, very personally. His name was Octavian. He was Julius Caesar's adopted heir. He was ruthlessly ambitious, and he wanted to rule Rome

“alone. Antony and Cleopatra were the only thing standing in his way, and he decided to get rid of them.”

The beginning of the end came on September 2, 31 BCE at a place called Actium of the Western Coast of Greece. It was a massive naval battle. Octavian's lead against the combined forces of Antony and Cleopatra, and Octavian came out on top. Cleopatra's shifts fled the fight, Antony chased after her, and the two then sailed home to Alexandria to wait for the inevitable. Octavian was coming. The only question was one. The answer turned out to be the following summer.

By July of 30 BCE, Octavian's army had reached Egypt, and Antony soldiers started doing the math. One by one, his legions deserted him, and went over to Octavian. Meanwhile, Cleopatra was making preparations of her own. Years earlier, she'd had a tomb built for herself,

“and according to the Greek writer Plutarch, who was our single most important source for this”

entire story, it was no ordinary tomb. He described it as a monument. Poets are passingly lofty and beautiful, built right next to a temple of the goddess Isis. It she filled it with treasure, gold, silver, pearls, ebony, the works. As Octavian closed in, Cleopatra retreated into that tomb with two of her most loyal servants, woman named Iris and Carmen. And then she did something unexpected. She sent word to Antony that she was already dead. We don't really know why. Maybe she wanted

to see what he'd do, maybe it was a play to protect herself in her son, but whatever the reason, it backfired horribly, because Antony believed it, and he didn't want to live in a world without her. So Antony took his own sword and stabbed himself. But he didn't die right away. And while he was lying there mortally wounded, word arrived that Cleopatra was actually still alive. So Antony begged his men to carry him to her. She was barricaded inside the tomb and wouldn't open the door.

She was terrified of being captured, so they hauled him up through a window, and there in her arms Mark Antony died. According to Plutarch, who was writing about this about 130 years later, Cleopatra poured offerings for Antony and embraced the earn that held his ashes.

So now Cleopatra was alone. And Octavian's men finally took her alive. He was planning a victory

parade through Rome, and the ultimate prize would be the queen of Egypt herself in chains for everyone

Plutarch describes a broken, grief, stricken, Cleopatra pleading for her life.

“Cassius Deo, another Roman historian, describes a still raiding queen trying to seduce Octavian”

the way she'd once charmed Caesar and Antony. Either way, it didn't work. Octavian was polite and non-committal. But a few days later, Cleopatra got a tip. He intended to send her and her children to Rome within days, and that was something she would not allow. What happened next became one of the most famous death scenes in all of history. The story goes that Cleopatra dressed in her row rows laid down on a golden couch and had a venomous snake

smuggled to her, an Egyptian cobra called an ass, hidden in a basket of fakes. She held a turskin and a bit her. By the time Octavian's men broke down the door, it was over. They found Cleopatra

“dead on her golden couch, dressed like a queen, her crown perfectly in place. Her certain”

iris laid dead at her feet. Carmen dying was still adjusting Cleopatra's die dem, and then she collapsed too. Cleopatra was 39 years old, and with her died the last dynasty of ancient Egypt. It's a perfect ending, dramatic, tragic, and iconic all rolled into one. They're just one problem with it. A lot of historians don't think it's true, because here's a detail the legend

always leaves out. When the Romans searched that room, they never found a snake. Plutarch admitted

himself. All anyone found were two tiny puncture marks on Cleopatra's arm. Whatever really killed her, Octavian had lost his trophy, but then he did something that surprised everyone. Cleopatra's

“final written request had been to be buried beside Antony, an Octavian granted it. Maybe out of”

respect, maybe just to keep the conquered Egyptians calm, either way he gave the order. The two lovers were to be embalmed and buried together in grand royal fashion. And that is the last time in history that anyone clearly tells us where Cleopatra is. I first met Koneta when I started reaching out to women in prison. For years, I thought I knew why she killed a man. But the more I dug in, the more I realized that nothing was quite so simple. What she buried is available now on the

binge. Search for what she buried wherever you get your podcasts to start listening today. Subscribeers to the binge can listen to all episodes all at once, add free. So Cleopatra and Antony are buried together somewhere in or around Alexandria and 30 BCE. What happened next? Well, for Octavian, business was booming. He had Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, 17-year-old Caesarian hunted down and killed. It's brutal, but you can't have a living son of

Caesar wandering around when you're trying to be his one true heir. That being said, Cleopatra's three younger children, the ones she'd had with Antony, or spared. Octavian paraded them through Rome and then in a generally bizarre twist, handed them over to be raised by his sister, Octavia, who was also Mark Antony's ex-wife. So yeah, some complicated family dynamics there. When it came to the empire, things were a little less complicated. Egypt itself became province

of Rome. The 300-year-it-tolomeg dynasty was finished. Octavian went home, took the name Augustus,

and became the first emperor of Rome. And the tomb? At first, it was probably a known place

the way Alexander the Greats tomb, in that same city, stayed a famous landmark for centuries. But here's the strange part. With Alexander, ancient writers at least tell us roughly where to look, with Cleopatra, they go quiet. No later writer pins it down, and then the trail just vanishes. Part of the reason is one of the great slow-motion disasters of history. Turns out Alexandria was built on shaky ground. Over the centuries, the coastline began to sink. And then in the year 365 CE,

the whole region was hit by a massive earthquake and a tsunami that killed an estimated 5,000 people in Alexandria alone. The royal quarter, the palaces, the temples, the harbor destroyed where Cleopatra had lived and ruled, slid beneath the waves. Today, a lot of ancient Alexandria

literally be underwater right now. Which brings us to the modern hunt. Because over the last few

“decades, two very different people have gone looking for Cleopatra in two very different places.”

The first is a friend under water archaeologist named Frank Godia. In 1992, he started mapping

the sunken harbor of Alexandria, and what he found out there was breathtaking. An entire lost royal city, remarkably intact, just resting on the sea bed. The second searcher is a woman named Kathleen Martinez. By training, she's a lawyer from the Dominican Republic, but she's also passionate about archaeology. And she became convinced that everyone searching in Alexandria was looking in the wrong place. She believed that Cleopatra was hidden somewhere and nobody else was even considering

about 30 miles outside the city. In 2005, she started digging, and she's still digging there today. So before we get into the theories, let me lay the clues on the table because they generally point in different directions. Cleopatra's tomb was in Alexandria next to a temple of ISIS. Cleopatra's tomb. Alexandria's royal quarter is now underwater. Cleopatra is in this one as

wild. In all of Egypt, archaeologists have never found the tomb of a single one of the 14

Tollamag rulers. An entire dynasty of kings and queens and we can't locate any of them. And clue four. Nearly everything we know about Cleopatra's death and burial comes from Roman sources, which is to say from the people who hate her. So where is Cleopatra? Let's get into the theories starting with the science. Science actually has answers to both of our big questions. How Cleopatra

“died and where she ended up. Neither answer is as thrilling as the legend, but honestly, that's”

kind of the point. Let's start with her death because as a clinical pharmacist, I find this part

especially fascinating. Remember, the Romans never found a snake. So in 2010, a German historian

Christoph Sheifer teamed up with a toxicologist named Dietrich Meves to ask a deceptively simple question. What did the snake story even work? And their answer was probably not. Here's a problem. The bite of an Egyptian cobra is not a gentle way to go. The venom causes pain, swelling, vomiting and a slow creeping paralysis. Death can take hours and it is agonizing. But the ancient sources described Cleopatra's death as quick and peaceful. She looked like she was

sleeping. That does not match a cobra bite at all and there's more. A cobra is big. It's hard to hide. And a single bite isn't even guaranteed to be lethal. So if you're a queen, absolutely determined to die with dignity before the Romans can lay hands on you, would you really gamble your life and your legacy on a temperamental snake? Atop at that, it wasn't only Cleopatra who died that day. Both of her servants died too. That's three deaths supposedly from one snake. That's an awful

lot to ask of a single cobra. So what does the science suggest instead? Sheifer and Meves think Cleopatra use a cocktail of poisons, hemlock, opium and wool spain also called acne. It's easy to measure out. It's reliable and the opium would have brought on exactly the kind of quiet, painless, sleepy death the source is described. Some ancient writers actually hint at this directly. They imagine Cleopatra testing poisons or using a poison pin hidden inside a hollow comb.

Can we be 100% sure that's the answer? No. Our sources were written decades, even centuries later, but people with an agenda. But medically, the poison makes a lot more sense than the snake.

“Okay, so that's probably how she died. Now for the bigger question, where is she?”

And again, science gives us the most likely answer. It's just not a fun one. The grounded conventional view is simply the most literal reading of Plutarch. The tomb was in Alexandria near a temple of Isis close to the palace where she lived. So she's probably right there in the royal quarter. The trouble is that the royal quarter is at the bottom of the sea. And this is where Frank Gaudio comes back in. Since the 1990s, Gaudio and his team have been diving the

drown harbor of Alexandria and what they've mapped on there is astonishing. They found the island of Antirados where Cleopatra's palace once stood. They found marble floors towering red granite

tolemy the twelfth. And here's a detail I love. Down there, right by the palace, they also found

a small temple to the goddess Isis and a statue of a priest cradling a jar dedicated to Osiris.

“The gods clip Patrimos closely associated herself with. So could her tomb be down there too?”

Maybe. But here's the hard truth that experts keep stressing between the earth quakes that tsunami 20 feet of water centuries of mud looters at a modern city built on top of all of it. Even if the tomb survived, it may be impossible to ever find or identify. So the scientific verdict is a little deflating. She's most likely in Alexandria in pieces under the harbor and we may

never lay eyes on her. But most likely is not found. And not everyone is convinced she's in Alexandria

at all, which brings us to a far more dramatic possibility. This is a theory that's been making headlines for the last 15 years. And it belongs to Kathleen Martinez, the lawyer turned archaeologist we met earlier. Martinez doesn't think Cleopatra is in Alexandria at all. She thinks she's about 30 miles west of the city at a half-room temple complex called tapoceros Magda. Her reasoning goes back to how Cleopatra presented herself as the living embodiment of the goddess Isis.

“I remember Isis has been Osiris, the god of death and resurrection, but Cleopatra also cast Mark”

Anthony as the living Osiris. So you've got a queen who is Isis and her lover who is Osiris. Now look at the name of that temple. Tapoceros Magna, literally translates to "the great tomb of Osiris." It was a temple dedicated to Osiris. And inside it archaeologists have confirmed there was also a shrine to Isis. For Queen of Blue, she and her husband were the living incarnations of those two exact gods, you could not design a more perfect or sacred place to spend a

turny together. And Martinez adds one more piece, motive. After the battle of Akteam, Cleopatra knew Octavian was coming, and she knew he wanted her as a trophy.

So Martinez argues, Cleopatra deliberately chose to be buried somewhere Roman never

thanked to look. Hidden, out of reach, and safe. It's a beautiful theory. So has she found anything to back it up? Actually, yes, quite a lot. Over 20 years of digging, Martinez's team has pulled an incredible amount out of that site. They have found hundreds of coins stamped on Cleopatra's own face, including one hidden cache of more than 300 of them. They've also found a cemetery full of mummies deliberately buried facing the temple. Exactly what you'd expect is something

“royal and important to land side. Some of the mummies were covered in gold leaf, with little”

gold foil tongues placed in their mouths, so they could speak to a Cyrus in the afterlife. Along with that, they've turned up a headless rural statue, and a small carved amulet inscribed the words "The Justice of Ra" has arisen. And then, in 2022, came the big one. Deep beneath the temple, Martinez's team discovered a tunnel, and not a little one. This thing runs about 1,300 meters, more than 4,000 feet, carved through solid rock, around 40 feet

underground. It was so precisely engineered that X was compared it to one of the great engineering marvels of the ancient Greek world. In part of it, runs underwater, heading straight for the Mediterranean Sea. Then, just recently, in 2025, the team made another discovery that got everyone buzzing. Working with Robert Ballard, the same ocean explorer who found the wreck of the Titanic, they located a sunken harbor off the coast right where that tunnel was pointing.

All of a sudden, you could picture a route, a body brought in quietly by a sea through the port into the tunnel and to a hidden tomb inside the temple. Out of Rome's reach, exactly like Martinez predicted. So, case closed, is Cleopatra at Tappocera's Magna. Not so fast, because a lot of very serious scholars think Martinez has it wrong. Leading the skeptics is a heroine. Each of the former head of antiquities and a man who actually worked at Tappocera's site alongside

Martinez for years. His verdict is blunt. There's no evidence at all that Cleopatra is buried there.

Paloce took one look at it and said flatly that it isn't Cleopatra. It's Roman, he said, and it doesn't even look like her. All their experts said the same thing. And the criticism runs deeper than one statue. Nearly a dozen Cleopatra scholars have said, a Tappocera's burial is unlikely. A store in it Cambridge argues that Octavian actually wanted Cleopatra buried right there in Alexandria, because Rome was busy presenting itself as the rightful heir to the ferros.

It had tuned for the last ferros in the capital served that story. Others point out that the ancient sources all aim at Alexandria, and that Martinez hasn't published her findings in peer review journals, which makes them hard to independently verify. But here's the point that matters most. After 20 years of digging, Martinez has found

coins, mummies, tunnels, and temples, but she has never found any indication that Cleopatra

is actually there. Without question, Tappocera's magna is an important site tied to Cleopatra's

“era. But is it her tune? We honestly don't know yet.”

And if it isn't, if she's not under the sea in Alexandria and not hidden at the temple of Osiris, then maybe the reason we can't find Cleopatra is that she never wanted to be found. So far, we looked at two rounded theories that Cleopatra is under the sea, or she's hidden at Tappocera's magna. But I want to explore a third idea now. One that's more speculative, but I think is still worth talking about. What of Cleopatra's disappearance wasn't an accident at

all? What a vanishing was the entire point. Think about who this woman was. Cleopatra wasn't just

a queen. She was arguably the single greatest image maker of the ancient world. She staged her first

meeting with Mark Antony by sailing up a river on a golden barge with purple sales dressed as the goddess of love. She turned her entire life into theater, so it's not a stretch of magic and she's staged manage her death and her burial too. And here's where it gets really interesting. In the myth of Isis and Osiris, Osiris is killed, and his body is hidden away, and is only by being hidden that he's eventually resurrected and becomes the eternal Lord of the afterlife.

Now put yourself in Cleopatra's sandals. You are the living Isis. Your husband is the living Osiris. The Romans are at the gates and they want to drag your body through their streets and put it on display. So what does the most powerful, most defined thing you could possibly do? You could disappear. Completely. You could arrange to be buried in a place so secret that not even your conquerors empire or his descendants 2000 years later could ever find you.

And in doing that, you wouldn't just be escaping Rome. You'd be living out the Osiris myth

for real. The hidden body that can never be desecrated and therefore never truly dies.

“If that's what happened, then the missing tomb is her final masterpiece.”

Now there's no hard proof that Cleopatra masterminded some secret burial. This is in form speculation. Built on what we know about her personality and her faith. The loyal priest hit her in secret version of events is exactly the kind of romantic story that's almost impossible to test. And the boring explanation of earthquakes, looters, and the sea may simply have done the job for her. But while we're in the realm of what if, there's one more idea I really want to mention. The curse.

The ancient Egyptians genuinely believed that tombs were protected, guarded by spells, by magic, but the gods themselves. It's the same belief that gave us the famous legend of the mummy's curse. The idea that disturbing a pharaoh's rest brings doom, which is most famously associated with the opening of King Toon Commons 2. Some people quietly wonder whether Cleopatra's resting place is protected in just that way. Which is why the thinking goes, it stays hidden.

Now am I telling you there's a literal curse keeping archaeologists away from Cleopatra? No.

“Curses are folklore, not that. But I think that idea of the protected,”

cursed, undescarable tomb tells us something about how badly we want this particular grave to be special, something more than rubble under the sea. Because here's a thing that gives me chills,

the Caesar's Alexander himself. Cleopatra is the one who truly vanished. We can't find her anywhere,

“and maybe that's the most perfect ending for her story.”

So for a second, set aside where Cleopatra actually is, and let me ask a different question. Why do we care so much? I keep coming back to one idea. Control. Almost none of us get to decide how our story ends. We don't choose when we go or how we're remembered. The world usually decides all that for us. But Cleopatra refused to hand that power over. When Rome came to take everything, her kingdom, her children, her body, her story, she made a choice. She chose how she would die.

She asked me late to rest beside the man she loved, and then, whether by careful design or by sheer cosmic luck, she pulled out something almost no one in history ever has. She controlled the final chapter, and then she walked clean out of the book. There's something deeply human and wanting that. And wanting to write your own ending instead of letting it be written for you. But there's a flip side. It's about us, not her. We cannot stand a missing ending. We

need the body. We need the answer. We need to know how the story finishes. It's why we spent 2000 years hunting for a woman who just maybe didn't want to be found. The search for Cleopatra's tomb isn't only about her. It's about our own discomfort with mystery. Our need to close the book

“even when someone else chose to leave it open. Okay, so after all that, what do I actually think?”

Let me take the two questions one at a time. Starting with how she died. And here I'm going to put my pharmacist hat on, because the evidence is honestly pretty clear. I don't think it was

the snake. A cupboard bite is slow, it's painful, and it's unreliable. And the Romans never even found

a snake in the room. On the other hand, a carefully measure cocktail of plant poisons fits everything the source is described. Quick, calm, and dignified. The story of the asked is what we remember, not because it's true, but because it's better. The Royal Cobra, the ancient symbol of Pharaohs coiled around the most dramatic queen in history. Frankly, it's great branding. Now the harder question. Where is she? As much as I would love for Kathleen Martinez to be right, a secret tomb

beneath the temple of Osiris, a queen's perfect vanishing act, I think the evidence points the other way. Cleopatra is most likely where Plutarch said she'd be. In Alexandria, near her palace, in the Royal Quarter, which means she's almost certainly beneath the harbor now or buried under the modern city. In very possibly looted or destroyed centuries ago. Tabasiris Magna is a stunning site in a gorgeous theory, but until someone finds more concrete proof, it stays a hypothesis,

not an answer. But in this part, I really love. Most likely is not salt. We have never found

a single Tolemague to. And people have been wrong about Cleopatra for 2,000 years. So do I think we've

“heard the last word on this? Not even close. And part of me hopes we never do. Here's the thing”

about a missing body. It doesn't actually take an ancient world to lose one. We don't have to imagine what Cleopatra's mystery would look like in modern times, because we already have a version of it. At his name was Jimmy Hoffa. If you don't know the name, Hoffa was one of the most powerful men in America. He ran the teamsters, the enormous trucking union. At its peak, it had more than two million members. Hoffa was rich, who was ruthless, and one of the biggest names in America.

And on July 30, 1975, he walked into the parking lot of a restaurant outside Detroit supposedly to meet a couple of organized crime figures called this wife to say he'd been stood up

and was never seen again. His car was found the next morning. His body never was.

Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, and while it's widely believed he was murdered by the mob, nobody can say for sure, and no one was ever charged. If you really think about it, you can see the parallels to Cleopatra. A powerful larger-than-life figure brought down almost certainly by people more powerful than he was. And then gone, nobody, no grave, no answer. Here's where the parallel gets almost eerie. Just like with Cleopatra, the missing body

spawned a thousand wild theories. People said Hoffa was crushed in a car compactor. Maybe dissolved or incinerated at a mob owned sanitation plant. And the most famous theory of all,

It's a great story, and almost certainly a myth. Which is the perfect modern echo of the ass.

“The version ever repeats precisely because it's the best story, not because it's true.”

And just like each of the colleges keep digging for Cleopatra, the FBI has kept digging for Jimmy Hoffa. Over the past 50 years, they've torn up a horse farm, a driveway, and the ground beneath a swimming pool.

As recently as 2022, ages excavated in New Jersey, landfill under a highway bridge,

chasing a deathbed confession that the body had been sealed in a steel drum 15 feet down. What did they find? The official statement said nothing of evidentiary value. How I wouldn't even made a film about one disputed version of his death, the Irishman,

and we still don't know where he is. So here's the last night to take from Jimmy Hoffa,

and it flips what you might expect. We tend to assume Cleopatra vage because she lived in an ancient world, no cameras, no records, no forensics. But Hoffa disappeared in the age of the FBI,

“a fingerprints, and a watching nation. And he is just as gone. The truth is, a body that someone”

is truly determined to lose can defeat even a modern investigation. What doesn't change across 2000 years from the Egyptian desert to a bridge in New Jersey is us. We cannot let it go. We keep digging. Whether it's an archaeologist with a trial at the Temple of Osiris or an FBI agent of the Backhoe under the Poloski Skyway, it comes from a deeply human refusal to accept that a person could simply disappear and stay gone. Cleopatra has had 2,000 years of it. Jimmy Hoffa's only had

50. It's nothing tells me we're not done looking for either of them. Thanks so much for joining for this episode of Hidden History. I'm Dr. Hoony Bot. Join me next time as we explore another unbelievable story from the past. So what do you think happened to Cleopatra? Is she waiting

“under the ways of Alexandria hidden away at the Temple of Osiris or gone for good?”

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