2 November 2021 - LOST CITY DISCOVERED UNDERWATER 1,500 YEARS LATER

 

LOST CITY DISCOVERED 

UNDERWATER 1,500 

YEARS LATER

G'day folks,

Great discoveries are still being made around the world. 

Heracleion, a very prosperous and a known city had been engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had also been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, who had launched a thousand ships, travelled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.

 

Clancy's comment: Stunning!

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17 March 2021 - D-DAY TANKS FOUND IN ENGLISH CHANNEL

 

D-DAY TANKS FOUND

 IN ENGLISH CHANNEL

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The deep ocean can easily win the title of the most mysterious place on earth. After all, we do know more about outer space than we do about the darkest depths of our seas. 

But humans are a curious species, and the ocean is continually being explored. Naturally, in some of these expeditions, people have found some mysterious and fascinating objects, hidden deep in the water. Some are historical artifacts, some hold an inexplicable mystery around them.

In 2008, scuba divers in the English Channel stumbled across two massive army tanks on the ocean floor. An investigation revealed it was quite a significant find - the two vehicles dated back to the Second World War. Found eight miles off the West Sussex Coast, the tanks were relatively well-preserved with the guns still intact.

After checking for minute details of the tanks against historical records, investigators managed to identify them as rare British Centaur CS IV tanks. The historic weapons were meant to be used in battle during the D Day landings but never arrived. Historians discovered the tanks fell overboard when a landing craft capsized on its way to the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Clancy's comment: I wonder what else is down there?

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14 March 2021 - A 3,400-year-old artist's palette found in Egypt

 

A 3,400-year-old artist's

 palette found in Egypt

 

G'day folks,

You’ve probably heard or read stories of various ancient artifacts such as amulets, symbols, rings, and many iconic historical structures in your school history books. 

 

These fascinating items are incredibly important as they give us glimpses of how life used to be once upon a time for our ancestors. Since there were no cameras back then, these rare artifacts help create an image in our mind of that world gone by.

This painter's palette is believed to have been carved around 1390–1352 BC from a single piece of ivory. Amazingly, you can still see the cakes of pigments including blue, green, brown, yellow, red, and black in its wells. 

 

 

An inscription of the pharaoh Amenhotep III in hieroglyphics and the epithet "beloved of Re" can also be seen in this ancient palette which is safely kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Historians say that during the reign of pharaoh Amenhotep III in ancient Egypt, art and culture were on the rise and this old palette is a wonderful reminder of that.

Clancy's comment: I find these discoveries fascinating. 

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