Byzantine Shipwrecks Shed New Light On Ancient Ship Building

New Historian ^ | January 03, 2015 | Sarah Carrasco

[SunkenCiv]

Deep Water, Ancient Ships — The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean
by Willard Bascom
http://www.alibris.com/Deep-Water-Ancient-Ships-The-Treasure-Vault-of-the-Mediterranean-Willard-Bascom/book/1542208

ah, found it on the drive:

“It sits upright on the bottom, lightly covered by the sea dust of 2,500 years,” he wrote. “The wave-smashed deckhouse and splintered bulwarks tell of the violence of its last struggle with the sea. A stub of a mast still remains.”

and the original link was in the file:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature3/assignment1.html

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/517204/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3072404/posts?page=14#14

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1527955/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1528600/posts

[zeestephen]

Thanks for your excellent links.

I read them all.

I was not familiar with Willard Bascom.

I had completely forgotten about the Black Sea megaflood, which explains the transition from fresh water to salt water.

I've lived in Portland and Seattle for a long time and was not aware of our own glacial megafloods until I moved here.

There is also a strong academic consensus in this area that most early settlements in the northwest were on the coast and disappeared under the post-glacial Pacific Ocean.

And thanks for the amphora photo. I love that utensil. It was the standardized canned goods/bottle/shipping container of the Mediterranean for 4000 years!

[SunkenCiv]

:’) My pleasure.

[colorado tanker]

I find the Byzantines a fascinating subject. Thanks for posting.

It sounds as if they are finding these ships in the capital's waters.