Monday 29 April 2013

Missing Town of Heracleion Gives up its Coverts


Heracleion disappeared beneath the Mediterranean around 1,200 years ago




A lost historical The red sea town engrossed within the sea 1,200 decades ago is beginning to expose what lifestyle was like in the famous slot of Thonis-Heracleion.

 For hundreds of years it was thought to be a tale, a town of outstanding prosperity described in Homer, frequented by Sally of Troy and London, her fan, but obviously hidden under the sea.

In fact, Heracleion was true, and a several decades after divers started discovering its gifts, archaeologists have created an image of what lifestyle was like in the town in the era of the pharaohs.

The town, also called Thonis, vanished within the Mediterranean sea around 1,200 decades ago and was found during a study of the The red sea coast at the beginning of the last several decades.

Now its lifestyle at the center of business tracks in traditional times are becoming clear, with scientists developing the view that the town was the primary traditions hub through which all business from Portugal and elsewhere in the Mediterranean sea joined The red sea.

 They have found the continues to be of more than 64 delivers hidden in the dense clay-based and sand that now includes the sea bed. Silver coins and loads made from brown and rock have also been found, suggesting at the business that went on.

Giant 16 foot sculptures have been found and delivered to the outer lining area while archaeologists have found thousands of small sculptures of minimal gods on the sea floor.

Slabs of rock written in both historical Ancient and Ancient The red sea have also been delivered to the outer lining area.

Dozens of little limestone sarcophagi were also lately found by divers and are considered to have once included mummified creatures, put there to please the gods.

Dr Damian Johnson, home of the Oxford Center for Historic The archaeology of gortyn at the School of Oxford, who is part of the team operating on the website, said: “It is a significant town we are digging up.

“The website has awesome maintenance. We are now beginning to look at some of the more exciting areas within it to try to understand lifestyle there.

“We are getting a wealthy image of factors like the business that was going on there and the characteristics of the maritime economic system in the The red sea delayed period. There were factors were coming in from Portugal and the Phoenicians.

 “We have thousands of little sculptures of gods and we are trying to find where the wats or temples to these gods were in the town.

“The delivers are really exciting as it is the greatest number of historical delivers found in one place and we have found over 700 historical anchor bolts so far.”

The scientists, dealing with In german TV documented creators, have also created a three perspective renovation of the town.

At its center was a huge forehead to the god Amun-Gereb, the superior god of the Egyptians at enough time.

From this expanded a wide system of pathways and programs, which permitted the town to become the most important slot in the Mediterranean sea at enough time.

Last month archaeologists from around the world collected at the School of Oxford to talk about the findings beginning to appear from the gifts found in Heracleion, known as for Hercules, who tale stated had been there.

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Mars and Earth on Rock Outcrops

Mars
This patch of windblown sand and dust downward from a bunch of dark rocks is the "Rock nest" site, which has been chosen as the likely location for first use of the scoop on the arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

Mars and Earth

The projection characteristics are reliable with a sedimentary conglomerate, or a rock that was formed by the deposition of water and is composed of many smaller rounded rocks cemented together.

Mars

The Bathurst Inlet rock is dark gray and appears to be so fine-grained that MAHLI cannot resolve grains or crystals in it. This means that the grains or crystals, if there are any at all, are smaller than about 80 microns in size.

Fly Ranch Geyser


Fly Geyser, also known as Fly Ranch Geyser is a small geothermal geyser that is located approximately 20 miles north of Gerlach, in Washoe County, Nevada on private property.

Tuesday 19 June 2012

Amazing Global Geographic images

A man standing over a swimming hole in Victoria Falls, Zambia

A young harp seal swims gracefully through icy water in Canada's Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

A Southern Right Whale approaches Brian Skerry's assistant underwater off the Auckland Islands, New Zealand

An Asiatic lion family in India. 

Macaque mother holds her young born in Borneo rainforest, Indonesia.

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Indonesia issues tsunami warning after 8.9 earthquake

Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. The US Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

Said, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued. India also issued tsunami warning for Nicobar Islands following massive earthquake off Sumatra coast.

Tremors were also felt in Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and several other cities on the eastern coast of India.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on December 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

Earth Quake in Chennai

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has been felt in many countries including India and Nepal. Tremors were felt across India including Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Bihar and Guwahati. A tsunami warning has been issued across the Indian ocean.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

Earth Quake in Chennai

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has been felt in many countries including India and Nepal. Tremors were felt across India including Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Bihar and Guwahati. A tsunami warning has been issued across the Indian ocean.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.