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According to Martinez, the excavation revealed a large religious sanctuary. Hidden inside were over 1500 busts, art, and the most interesting- coins with faces of the well-known Alexander the Great. Another great discovery found within this tunnel is routes leading down to the Mediterranean Sea and sunken structures. Now, the team Martinez has banded together and started to set out on a new adventure, one of underwater excavations. Due to recurring earthquakes, parts of important historical buildings- such as Taposiris Magna (an ancient Egyptian city founded by the Pharoh PtolemyⅡ) - have fallen to the ocean floor. If these tunnels and secret pathways ultimately lead to the Egyptian queen’s tomb, then this would be a revolutionary discovery for everyone, revealing the secrets of her life and who she was.

Lead researcher Junyong Zhu and other colleagues from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado have created a transparent wood, which people are referring to as “the window of tomorrow.” Regular glass comes along with financial and ecological costs. Heat comes through normal windows quite easily and raises people's electric bills, but to even manufacture glass for the windows, over 25,000 tons of carbon is released into the atmosphere. According to the USDA, the transparent wood is five times more thermally efficient than glass and is created without such high emissions.

It is made from the balsa tree, native to South American rainforests. 95% of the trees grow in Ecuador on dense plantations, so it is rather easy to harvest the wood and ship it off. The production of more wood-glass would help to lower our carbon footprint and decrease the financial burden of high electricity bills.