Exploring the Palace of Cleopatra on the Seabed

 

          Mystery of Cleopatra's palace on the seabed increasingly revealed. In a dive mission, Tuesday, May 25, 2010, a team of scientists had important findings in the ruins of buildings under the sea, which is believed to be a complex of palaces and the Temple of Isis, the place where once reigned queen of Ancient Egypt. The palace complex and the temple of Isis had forgotten this for 2,000 years.

          The ruins were located on the seabed around the island Anthirodos, which is located near the port city of Alexandria, Egypt. Valuables from the ruins of the palace, which was first discovered in 1996, will be exhibited in the United States (U.S.) from early June.

          The divers swim among the piles of limestone that sank to the seabed by the earthquake and tsunami of more than 1,600 years ago. Teams of divers from several countries are struggling to dig one of the underwater archaeological sites in the world's richest.

          They took amazing artifacts Cleopatra-era relics, known as the last dynastic ruler of ancient Egypt before it was colonized by the Roman Empire in 30 BC (BCE).

          Using the latest technology, the team detected banguan ruins buried deep beneath the rest of the harbor sediments. Eventually a team of divers to confirm the accuracy of descriptions about the city of Alexandria, left by the geographers and historians of Greece about 2,000 years ago.

          Since the early 1990s, topographic survey allowed the research team led by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, to conquer the port of Alexandria to his field of vision is very less. "This location is a unique site in the world," said Goddio who has spent two decades to find the lost city.

          This exploration brings a team of divers visiting the palace complex and the temple of Isis. That's where Cleopatra's love affair with the Roman general Mark Antony (Mark Antony). They reputedly committed suicide following the defeat of his former allies Antony, Octavian, in the Civil War. Octavian then appeared to lead the Roman Emperor Augustus with the name.

          Teams of divers found a number of key places in the dramatic life of Cleopatra, Antony couples, including Timonium, where Antony withdrew from the outside world after the defeat of Octavian. The building was not completed already done because Antony committed suicide.

          They also found a large head-shaped stone, which is strongly suspected as Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and her lover before Antony, Julius Caesar. The team also found two sphinxes that one of them is probably the picture of Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII.

          The discovery in the waters of Alexandria will be on display at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, United States (USA) from June 5 until January 2, 2010 in the exhibition titled "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt". The exhibition will then continue to other cities in North America.

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