A whole world down there! Underwater Art Museum unveiled on seabed in Mexico

A new art project is stirring off the Cancun coast in Mexico.

The new creation by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor has seen 400 individually cast human moulds taken from members of the Mexican public sunk to create the foundations of an artificial reef.

The project, which is called the Underwater Art Museum, has taken place in the Isla Mujeres National Marine Park, near Cancun, on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

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Roman bronze helmet found in a field sells for £2.3 MILLION... eight times its estimated value

A rare Roman bronze helmet found in a field by a metal detecting enthusiast, sold for an astonishing £2.3 million at auction today.

The immaculately preserved 2,000-year-old artefact, one of only three ever found in Britain, was discovered in a field by an unemployed graduate in his early 20s.

It prompted a five-minute frenzy of bidding at Christie’s in London before it was bought anonymously on the telephone for eight times its pre-sale estimate.

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