Off the shores of Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great, lies what is believed to be the ruins of the royal quarters of Cleopatra. A team of marine archaeologists led by Frenchman Franck Goddio made excavation on this ancient city from where Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemies, ruled Egypt. Historians believe this site was submerged by earthquakes and tidal waves more than 1,600 years ago.
The excavations concentrated on the submerged island of Antirhodus. Cleopatra is said to have had a palace there. Other discoveries include a well-preserved shipwreck and red granite columns with Greek inscriptions. There were also founded two statues which were lifted out of the harbor. One was a priest of the goddess Isis; the other a sphinx whose face is said to represent Cleopatra’s father, King Ptolemy XII. The artifacts were returned to their silent, because the Egyptian Government says it wants to leave most of them in place to create an underwater museum
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Hi everyone, let me introduce my cat. :D Her name is Kocia and as you can see, she’s an awesome cat who loves lying precariously on stacks of my books.
I thought I should introduce her to you now that I still can, since I’m about to strangle her in frustration. Spring has finally come to Poland and Kocia has decided that she’s bored of sitting at my flat all day and wants to go out to the forest. The problem is, the forest is 70 km away at my mum’s house. I can’t let her out here, because I live next to a busy highway in an estate with lots of strange people and strange dogs and no possibility for Kocia to be able to come back whenever she wants to.
So now we’re both reduced to sniping and meowing at each other in mounting frustration as we’re stuck in the flat for most of the long weekend. Wish me luck.
Oh hey, it’s my favourite cat ♥ Please don’t strangle my favourite cat, Kinya.
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A Glimpse of Hell - Stunning Shots of an Active Volcano
Two Kyrgyzstan-based photographers, Andrew and Luda, trekked to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia where the volcano complex known as Tolbachik was in active eruption. Among the numerous hellish vistas photographed by the team was this deep volcanic cave that offered a glimpse of what it might look like below the Earth’s crust.
beautiful.
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Crowned lemur, Edinburgh Zoo by bonugli on Flickr.
‘Die Nibelungen’ (1909) retold by Franz Keim and illustrated by Carl Otto Czeschka.
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Revolution Harmony’s debut All-Star charity single ‘We Are’ features vocals from Serj Tankian (System Of A Down) and Ihsahn (Emperor), as well as guitar solos by Devin Townsend. Composed, arranged, programmed and produced by Ray Holroyd in Vancouver, the complex international studio project was recorded in North America, England, Norway and New Zealand, then mixed by Rohan Onraet (Slipknot, Machine Head) in London, and mastered by Ted Jensen (Green Day, Muse) in New York. The single also features Stefan Loh (We Claimed Sentience Once - signed to Revolution Harmony) on guitars, and additional vocals from the young up-and-coming UK singer Abbie Johnson.
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