Monday, September 26, 2011
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Exo-necklace
After much research, experts traced the scarab back to the Great Sand Sea, 500 miles southwest of Cairo, in which there are huge lumps of glass poking out of the dunes. The general opinion is that a meteor hit the desert thousands of years ago, heating the sand enough to create lumps of glass. To give you an idea of the magnitude of this supposed impact, the first atomic bomb test created a thin layer of glass in the New Mexico desert - chunks of glass the size of human heads can be picked up in the Great Sand Sea.
Experts had long been put off the scarab's extraterrestrial scent by Carter's own definition. In his records, the great explorer describes the jewel as being "greenish yellow chalcedony". However, Vincenzo de Michele spotted that the gem was in fact natural desert glass in 1999, shooting him to the centre of one of Egypt's great mysteries: a mystery not least because there's no evidence a meteor has ever struck the desert.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Pyramid Code
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Alexandria
Plunging into the waters off Alexandria, Egypt, divers explore the submerged ruins of a palace temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, submerged into the sea by earthquakes and tsunamis more than 1,600 years ago.
This international team has painstakingly excavated one of the richest underwater archaeological sites in the world, retrieving stunning artifacts from the last dynasty which merged into the Roman Empire around 30 B.C.
Archeologists face technological and geological challenges excavating the site. Egyptian government keeps a tight hold and the seasons are against them. All Artifacts that are removed and studied, must be returned to the sea floor. Kinda weird!