Welcome to Goop Tales, episode 44, Kara Lest and Cleopatra's underwater palace.

I'm Maria Kalanchini, and I'm the author of Goop Tales.

So today's episode was inspired by an actual underwater city or sometimes called a palace,

which I recently just did a bit of research on.

And it was Cleopatra's palace, Cleopatra of Egypt, and this city was lost for

1600 years because it sunk down into the Mediterranean Sea after there were earthquakes and tidal wave

that, I think a tidal wave, that basically caused the land to shift and

the city sunk undersea and it was over, I think about 20 years ago that they, archaeologists

discovered this underwater city that was remains of the palace of Cleopatra. So it's called Cleopatra's palace.

So they found all sorts of really, really cool stone statues underneath there,

which are all featured in today's story,

so I'll let you discover them in the story.

And one word I wanted to clear up, so you're going to hear it in the

story, is that for a sphinx, which is like the half, with the human head and the lion body, the

sphinxes, the mythical creatures of old Egypt, the plural of them is sphingies. So when you hear that in the story,

you're going to know that I'm talking about two sphinx that are plural spinges. So I just wanted to

clear that up. Let's see if there's anything else before we get started. Oh, one other thing, which I'll talk about at the end, a couple of you, or more than a couple,

have listeners have reached out so generously and wanted to know how they could contribute to goop

tales.

And I'm just so appreciative because I really love making these.

So I am going to tell you what I did at the end of the story.

So I made that possible for you guys.

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