Underwater Archaeology
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Not sure how I’ve missed the scattered news reports on this one over the past few years, but the Kizilburun Shipwreck ‘dig’ seems to be rather significant. As the name might suggest, the site is off the coast of western Turkey and is largely the project of Deborah Carlson (and others) from Texas A&M. The…
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We last heard of this last summer, when some piece from the shipwreck were being moved to the facility at Portsmouth to be restored. Now we seem to be getting brief notices that the restoration process has actually begun. Charles Barker (of the Mary Rose Centre) dixit: It has an elm keel, an oak frame…