Friday,
October
3
, 2008
06
:33
pm
After a 62 million dollar overhaul the Bronx Zoo's 1903 Lion House on Astor Court now houses rare plants and animals from Madagascar.
Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. “Sinking Atlantis” digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans – and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.