Underwater Archaeology
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This is a rather good one on the excavation and recovery of artifacts from a shipwreck of Ventotene, which also includes a nice segment on the making of garum, inter alia. For background on the discovery back in 2009: Roman Shipwrecks of Ventotene
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There is a story kicking around right now about a shipwreck find near Genoa and my mind has been boggling to see it develop. So right now, pre-coffee, and seeing it in gaining ‘strength’, I’m basically at this point: Okay, so here’s how it developed this past weekend. For purposes of review, this seems to…
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From Hurriyet comes a piece exhibiting their frequent problems with B.C./A.D. and its variations: Two sunken ships have been seen by fishermen off the ancient city of Tieion in Çaycuma’s Filyos district in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak. With notice that two sunken ships have been seen off the ancient city of Tieion in…
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I’m somewhat skeptical about this one as it is being reported … from the Greek Reporter: A submerged underwater archaeological site with extensive sunken architectural remains was found by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities team at a depth of 200 to 600 m. off the Alikanas beach on northeast Zakynthos, the Ionian Sea Island, as…
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Interesting item from the National Oceanography Centre (UK)/University of Southampton: Known as the Belgammel Ram, the 20kg artefact was discovered by a group of British divers off the coast of Libya near Tobruk in 1964. The ram is from a small Greek or Roman warship – a “tesseraria”. These ships were equipped with massive bronze…
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