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Ancient city once home to Cleopatra is disappearing at an unprecedented rate: 'Sounding the alarm'
For over 2,300 years, the Egyptian city of Alexandria has stood as a hub of history, culture, and innovation. Once home to ...
Remembering Assassin's Creed Origins, the game which opened out the mysteries of the Great Pyramid
One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that ...
Gulf of understanding: The way we see the Earth has never been set in stone
Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.
Alexandria erodes: Rising sea levels threaten ancient city's foundation
Over the past two decades, more than 280 buildings have collapsed in Alexandria, resulting in the deaths of 85 people.
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Ancient city crumbles as looming threat begins to wreak havoc: 'Undoing in decades what took millennia of human ingenuity to create'
The ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria is increasingly succumbing ... the researchers created a detailed digital map of Alexandria's densely populated urban area. They also took samples to analyze ...
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Lost for 13,000 Years, Scientists Have Finally Decoded This Ancient 3D Map
View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...
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Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome
She has been identified by scholars as the model for the “St. Catherine of Alexandria” from Madrid, the woman holding the mirror in “Martha and Mary Magdalene” from Detroit and the ...
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Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria Is Crumbling Into the Sea—And It’s Happening Faster Than Expected
The ancient city of Alexandria is collapsing into the Mediterranean Sea at an unprecedented rate, with rising sea levels and ...
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Collapsing buildings in Egypt’s Alexandria raise alarm
[CAIRO] Buildings in the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria have been collapsing at an alarming ... the development of the coastline using satellite imagery and topographic maps. “We also conducted a ...
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Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is crumbling into the sea at an unprecedented rate
Over the past decade, the rate at which buildings have collapsed along the ancient city's seafront ... buildings around Alexandria between 2001 and 2021, and compared satellite images from between ...
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Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is crumbling into the sea at an unprecedented rate
Over the past decade, the rate at which buildings have collapsed along the ancient ... Alexandria between 2001 and 2021, and compared satellite images from between 1974 and 2021 with maps of ...
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Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is crumbling into the sea at an unprecedented rate
In the past 20 years, 280 buildings in this 2,300-year-old port city — known for being the birthplace of Cleopatra and the ancient home of the famed Library of Alexandria — have collapsed due ...