Visitors to Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, may be in for something special if plans for an underwater museum come through.
The museum will be partly built above water and will be partly submerged, making it the first of its kind in the world.
Its proposed site is near the Alexandria Library where the famous Queen Cleopatra is said to have hidden from the Romans with her dying lover Marc Antony and where she killed herself with an asp.
If built, the museum could display the treasures of her palace which once stood on an island submerged by a series of earthquakes from the fourth century AD onward.
In the 1990s, divers found thousands of items from the palace including 26 sphinxes, statues bearing gifts to the gods and even Roman and Greek shipwrecks.
History aficionados, particularly those interested in Egypt, should keep up with the latest developments and if the plans are approved, they should book
hostels as soon as they can.
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