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Contact Lens of the Future Is Remarkable A “Miracle” Tunnel Might Lead to Cleopatra’s Tomb Ethiopia Planted 353M Trees —in Half a Day Egypt Opens “Bent Pyramid” Meet the New Electric Road Egypt opened two of its oldest pyramids, Ethiopia claims it has smashed a world located about 25 miles south of the capital record in the name of climate change— Cairo, to visitors for the rst time since and the tree planting isn’t even done. 1965. Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany More than 353 million tree seedlin told reporters that tourists are now allowed gs were planted across the country in to visit the Bent Pyramid and its satellite pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, which is part of the Memphis Necropolis, You may one day drive down roads charged with electricity that your vehicle automatically detects and sucks up through an automatic arm—if a just 12 hours as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Green Legacy refores tation campaign. e campaign hopes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. e Bent Swedish project gains any headway. Called eRoad- to see 4 billion indigenous trees plant Pyramid, which the AP reports was built during the Old Kingdom of the Pharaoh of Sneferu, in about 2600 BC, is unique in that Arlanda, it has turned 1.2 miles of road outside Stockholm into a kind of slot-car track where electric trucks insert movable arms into a rail to recharge the vehicle’s ba ery while driving. Designed between May and October. Citizens had been encouraged to plant 200 mil lion trees but Ahmed tweeted that 150 it has two internal structures. El-Anany said ers say the technology is weather-proof and the million had been planted a er just six hours. At the end of 12 hours, the country’s minster for innovation and te chnology, Getahun Mekuria, announced 353,633,660 seedlings had gone into the ground—more than ve times as many trees as were planted in India over the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form of pyramid construction between the Djoser Step Pyramid (2667-2648 BC) and arm will rise automatically when one car passes another, Sky News reports. The rails are also said to be safe to the touch. 12 hours in 2017. Some schools and government o ces closed to allow stu dents and civil servants to take part, which notes 2.6 billion trees have now been planted across Ethiopia. e Guardian reports each citizen is asked to plant at least 40 seedlings. e goal is to transform Ethiopia’s landscape, which the Meidum Pyramid (also about 2600 BC). e Guardian notes its "unusual" shape: e rst 160 feet rise at "a steep 54 degree angle, before tapering o towards the top." “One of the most important issues of our time is the question of how to make fossil-free road transportation a reality,” says eRoadArlanda Chairman Hans Säll. “We now have a solution that will make this possible, which is amazing.” Among its pluses, is seeing degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and droughts and ooding tied to agriculture. About 80% of Ethiopia’s population relies on agriculture to make a living, with the result that just 4% of land is now forested, com pared to 30% at the end of the 19th century, according to Farm Africa. Per El-Anany also announced that Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a collection of stone, clay, and wooden sarcophagi, some Säll says the electric road lets vehicles have smaller ba eries and therefore makes vehicles cheaper to produce. The $7.7 million project will be tested with a truck fleet for two years, and if the government approves, it could be implemented for $1.9 Al Jazeera, a recent study estimates that 1 trillion new trees could pull al most 750 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—or about as much as humans have released in the last 25 years—over several decades of them with mummies, in the area. He said archaeologists also found wooden funerary masks along with instruments used for cutting stones, dating to the Late Period (664million per mile and include buses and cars. “Sweden is at the cu ing edge of this technology, which we now hope to introduce in other areas of the country and the world,” Säll says. US Teen Wins $3M at Fortnite World Cup 332 BC). Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said they also uncovered large stone blocks teen contestants Emil Bergquist Pe dersen from Sweden and David Wang from Austria shared a $3 million prize. Art Expert Gives Museum Some Really Bad News A museum in southern France suffered a terrible blow when experts declared that over half its paintings are forgeries, The Pennsylvania 16-year-old Kyle along with limestone and granite fragments Terrus museum, dedicated to the work of painter Étienne TerGiersdorf plays 8 to 10 hours of Fortnite a day, but his parents aren’t complaining: Giersdorf, indicating the existence of ancient graves in the area. Egypt has been whipping up publicity for its new historical discoveries in rus, apparently knew nothing of the fakes until an art historian informed them. “It’s a catastrophe,” the mayor of Elne, where the museum resides, tells the Telegraph. “I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, With a total prize pool of $40 million provided by Epic Games, Fortnite’s pa rent company, the tournament broke an better known as ”Bugha,” won the hopes of reviving a devastated tourism who saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s in- e-sports record, though that record is expe a record-breaking $3 million at the inaugural Fortnite World sector still recovering from the turmoil following a 2011 uprising that toppled tolerable and I hope we find those responsible.” Police have taken the fakes and are trying to find those responsible. cted to be broken by an August event cal led “ e International” Giersdorf, the rst longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Cup at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. e contest featured player in the North American East Region to qualify for the tournament, was domi 100 participants out of around nant in the six-game series, beating rivals 40 million who entered the on- including runner-up Harrison “Psalm” line competition. Giersdorf, who Chang, who took home $1.8 million. won the solo event in front of a Giersdorf was hugged by his family a er packed stadium, says he plans to the win. “ is is life-changing for him,” A 95-year-old singer/songwriter save the prize instead of going mother Darcy Giersdorf says. “He’s been named Angela Alvarez has won the on a spending spree. ”All I want playing video games since he was three, so Latin Grammy for best new artist, is a new desk and maybe a desk this is his passion. He told us he could do reports the Guardian. “To those for my trophy. In the duo event this, he put his mind to it and he did it.” who have yet to make their dreams come true, know that although life is hard, there’s always a way out and with faith and love everything can be achieved,” Alvarez, who was born in Cuba but emigrated to the US decades ago, said in her acceptance speech. “It was a very big but very beautiful

News WorldNews 15 Years Later, Tsunami’s Toll 12 Year Old Steals Moms Credit Card.. Heads on Vacation France Won’t Let Go of Long-Lost MasterpieceRemains Mind-Boggling It still haunts me.” e line from 28-year-old ai resident Suwanne Maliwan to Reuters expresses a common sentiment ursday, the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives. Maon April 21, 2016, and the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things liwan, for instance, lost both her parents and ve other relatives. ”Sometimes I dream that A 12-year-old Australian boy has pulled off a bold feat that drew international headlines: He stole his mom’s credit card and managed to fly to stand: Even though it’s been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the estate, Comerica Bank and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving siblings until the Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value a wave is coming,” she says. Vigils and memorials across Asia were commemorating Bali, Indonesia, for a posh, four-day vacation before ge ing caught. As recounted in the Australian program A Current Affair, the boy did some research online and figured out he could fly alone without needing a It’s not clear when that might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled the staggering loss of life in what was one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters. A 9.1 le er from a parent on Jetstar Airways. He nabbed his mom’s credit card, tricked his grandmother into giving him his passport, took a train to the airport, and flew to Bali. “They just asked for my student ID and to collect about half, though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court magnitude earthquake o Sumatra island passport to prove that I’m over 12 and that I’m in secondary school,” filings several months a er Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 million before taxes. The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case, the morning a er Christmas in 2004 trigsays the boy, identified only as Drew. He then checked into a four-star hotel, having made reservations in advance, telling the clerk that his hidden in sealed and redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up gered the tsunami and unleashed waves as older sister would be joining him soon. or down since then. That’s because the various a orneys, accountants, and industry experts at that point had not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music, high as 57 feet. And there he stayed, having a fine time while his panicked mom reportvideos, and assets including his Paisley Park studio. ed him as missing back home. It wasn’t until the boy posted a video of Coastal areas of ailand, Indonesia, India, himself in the hotel pool that his vacation finally came to an end. “I was shocked and disgusted, there’s no emotion to feel what we felt when sentative contacted school officials Thursday about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district. Sri Lanka, and other countries were deluged. One of the rst areas hit was Indonewe found out that he’d le overseas,” says mom, per news.com.au. One reason she’s ticked: Her son had actually tried this stunt twice before, only to be turned away at the airport by Qantas and Garuda Airlines. Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's courage but that he won't be able to a end sia’s Aceh province, notes CBS News. In fact, most of those killed were in Indonesia alone, Mom says she was informed her son’s passport would be flagged by federal authorities as a result, but that apparently never happened. In the a ermath, Jetstar promises to tighten up its policies. “He just doesn’t prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out a nearby movie theater on Saturday for where 170,000 deaths were registered. ”No words can describe our feelings when we like the word no and that’s what I got, a kid in Indonesia.” Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. Johnson even covered the cost of snacks tearfully saw thousands of corpses lying on this ground 15 years ago,” said acting Aceh Apparently 82 of the museum’s 140 works are phony, spo ed at times because they contained buildings constructed a er and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He Gov. Nova Iriansyah at a ceremony in Sigli. ”And now, we can see how people in Aceh Terrus died in 1922. Acclaimed for his landscapes of French Catalonia, Terrus was close with artists Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse and lived mostly in Elne, a town on the Tech knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central were able to overcome su ering and rise again, thanks to assistance from all IndoneRiver that’s less than three miles from the Mediterranean coast of Languedoc-Roussillon. The museum spent over $190,000 acquiring paintings they thought were his. But the Intelligence and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. sians and from people all over the world.” Terrus likely isn’t alone: Art experts say at least one in five paintings in the world’s top museums may well be fake. Shop In RI 5 ShopInRI 7

France is trying to hang onto a medieval painting with a crazy backstory. e nation has blocked the export of a small, 13th-century work by the Italian artist Cimabue, a painting that hung unnoticed for decades above a hotplate in a French woman's kitchen. An auctioneer spotted the painting as the elderly woman was preparing to sell her house, and Christ Mocked then sold for a staggering $26 million at auction earlier this year, recounts the Guardian. e buyers are anonymous, but they're believed to be a group of Chilean collectors based in the US. Now, however, it looks like they won't be able to own the painting a er all. France's culture ministry has declared the work to be a "national treasure" and has at least temporarily overruled the sale, reports USA Today. e ministry hopes to hang the painting permanently in the Louvre, and it now has 30 months to come up with the money to buy it. In the meanti me, the family of the unidenti ed woman who displayed the painting for years, unaware of its origin or its worth, must continue to pay to have it insured. ey also owe a multi-million-dollar inheritance tax, and they'll likely have to work out a deal to pay it a er the sale goes through. Looking to permanently while away your days overlooking the Tasman Sea and sipping on vino while watching "nice animals" with other "nice people"? Karl Reipen wants to hear from you. e Guardian reports the German multimillionaire has placed an ad seeking 10 people up to age 70 to come live in what he calls his "paradise," a 550-acre, $5.6 million estate in Awakino, on New Zealand's North Island. "If you are interested to live a life with a Group of Interesting people it can be a new life for you," reads the ad, which Stu NZ reports was published twice in the New Zealand Herald. Reipen,

who made his fortune in canned iced co ee, notes in the ad that the estate boasts a winery "for social meetings and dining," and that residents "can enjoy walking, shing, shopping, kayaking, bird watching, swimming or looking at the nice animals." ere are also stables and an indoor equestrian center on-site, and Reipen says, "If you would like to bring your own horse it is possible." Interested parties who prefer privacy will like that the property is an hour and a half from the nearest large town or city. e current government under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put in place a ban on foreigners owning homes in New Zealand, but Reipen scooped up

It’s a Complete Catastrophe: Ancient Coins Stolen in Heist

e Celtic and Roman Museum has lost its most precious treasure. e New York Times reports 483 ancient gold coins thought to be worth $1.7 million were on Tuesday morning discovered stolen from the museum, located in Manching, Germany. “It’s a complete catastrophe,” said mayor Herbert Nerb. “It’s like in a bad movie.” Indeed, the Times notes “the the played out like the plot of a movie.” Police say the thieves accessed a telecommunications room in the town and severed a cable, which the AFP reports killed phone and internet connections. A technician alerted police, but they gured banks were most vulnerable and sent patrols to those locations. e AP reports that the museum’s security system shows a door that was pried open was breached at 1:26am and that the thieves exited 9 minutes later, having smashed open the display cabinet in that time. Inside were the coins, which date to 100BC. e museum sta discovered the the when they arrived shortly before 10am. Guido Limmer, the deputy head of Bavaria’s State Criminal Police O ce, sees “parallels” between the Manching art heist and two other high-pro le the s in Germany in recent years: a giant coin stolen in 2017 from the Bode museum and jewels taken from Multimillionaire Invites 10the Green Vault museum in 2019. e People to Come Live in ’Paradise’Times reports that while there were arrests in both cases, the treasure was never recovered. “Whether there’s a link we can’t say,” Limmer said. “Only this much: the property years before that manda we are in touch with colleagues to te. He still had to get the OK from the investigate all possible angles.” e nation's Overseas Investment O ce, coins were uncovered in 1999 at an which signed o on his purchase a er ancient Celtic settlement called the Oppidum of Manchin. e coins, along with a chunk of unworked gold found with them, weigh nine pounds, and the head of the Bavarian State it determined he had the experience and means to build the property up and maintain it. "It took me 10 years to bring it to the standard of today," he Archaeological Collection in Munich writes in the ad. It's not clear how fu described his big fear: that they’ll be ture dwellers in Reipen's self-proclai melted down, which would reduce med utopia will be selected. their value to some $250,000. 6 Shop In RI Archaeologists hoping to nd Cleopatra’s lost tomb have instead discovered an incredible feat of engineering: a 6.5-foot-tall underground tunnel stretching for nearly a mile. e Egyptian Ministry of Tourism calls it a “geometric miracle,” per Smithsonian. Kathleen Martinez of the University of San Domingo, whose team uncovered the tunnel cut into rock more than 40 feet beneath the ruins of the temple of Taposiris Magna near Alexandria, tells Live Science it’s “an exact replica of Eupalinos Tunnel in Greece, which is considered as one of the most important engineering achievements of antiquity.” at tunnel on the Greek island of Samos, built centuries before Taposiris Magna, served as an aqueduct for 1,000 years, per Smithsonian. It’s believed this tunnel carried water as well. Parts of it are now ooded by the Mediterranean Sea, likely as a result of at least 23 earthquakes that hit the region between AD 320 and 1303, per the Times of Israel. ose same earthquakes may have brought down the temple above, dedicated to the god of the underworld, Osiris. Its destruction has complicated e orts to search for the tomb of Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra VII and her lover, Roman general Marc Antony, who committed suicide in 30 BC, at the end of the period to which the tunnel dates, per Live Science. ough other experts disagree, Martinez believes the couple’s tomb might be found at the site. Previous excavations uncovered coins bearing Cleopatra’s likeness. Archaeologists also found a cemetery of mummies facing in the direction of the temple, which Martinez says could be a sign of a royal tomb nearby, per the Times. She notes some mummies were given golden tongues, which were thought to allow the dead to speak with Osiris. Martinez hopes the tunnel might lead her to the tomb and “the most important discovery of the 21st century,” per the Times. “ is is the rst time that any archeologist has found tunnels, passages underground [and] inside the enclosure walls of the temple,” she tells the outlet. But researchers note the tunnel itself is impressive. It’s believed to have been built to carry water to the city of Taposiris Magna at a time when it counted 15,000 to 20,000 inhabitants.

At 95, She Won for 'Best New Artist'

surprise, and I thought a erwards that all my dreams came true,” Alvarez tells Billboard. “At 95, but that doesn’t matter.” She is enjoying fame beyond the album as well. Actor Andy Garcia narrates a new documentary about her life, Miss Angela, and he also helped her land a singing cameo in the Father of the Bride lm reboot.