Bronze ring from Cleopatra's sunken palace shows lost wonder

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA bronze ring pulled from the sunken palace of Cleopatra shows the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Fox News reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe lighthouse is on a ring. Okay, I'm listening.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt was found on Antirhodos, an island that was once part of the royal quarters in Alexandria's Great Harbour, and the Supreme Council of Antiquities says no seal ring with the lighthouse had ever been found before.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFirst-ever drop. No restock, no waitlist, and the only warehouse is the harbour floor.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe lighthouse stood more than three hundred twenty-eight feet tall and was built around two hundred eighty B.C.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe engraving matches coins struck in Alexandria in the second century A.D.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentArt history professor Margaret Miles suggests a merchant wore it to signal where he was in Alexandria. That's a location tag, Vera.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwo thousand years early.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI prefer to call it a personal brand statement in bronze, and the palace was home to Ptolemaic rulers, so the branding was very strong.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBrand statement. Sure.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe institute has no firm date and no owner. So the oldest location tag has no name on it.