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Blue Marble Private Offers RMS Titanic Tours

2017-03-15 by Phil Butler

RMS Titanic wreck

Intrepid tourists may soon have the rarest of opportunities, as London-based Blue Marble Private fathoms offering exclusives deep sea dives on the famous RMS Titanic.

Tags: Benjamin Guggenheim, Isidor Straus, John Jacob Astor, RMS Titanic, Robert Ballard, Titanic, Titanic dive, Titanic tour, Titanic wreck

Akrotiri, Window Into the Bronze Age, Reopens

2012-04-12 by Phil Butler

Prehistoric Site of Akrotiri, Santorini

Seven years after the roof of Santorini’s Akrotiri archaeological site fell, killing a British tourist, the Bronze Age wonder has reopened to the public. This prehistoric town, called by many the “Pompeii of the Aegean”, was for centuries buried beneath tons of volcanic ash. On Wednesday, visitors were once again allowed in to see one of the world’s lost wonders.

Tags: Akrotiri, ancient civilizations, Ancient Greece, Atlantis, Bronze Age, Greece, Greece travel, Greek Islands, Minoans, Pompeii, prehistory, Robert Ballard, Santorini, Santorini tourism, Thera, Thera eruption

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