A new day surfaces for deep sea archaeology

USA Today ^ | 06/26/2002 - Updated 10:04 PM ET | By Dan Vergano

[vannrox]

The desert winds swept over the sands and out to the sea. Waters churned and the ships, loaded with wine from the ancient city of Tyre, tumbled in the storm.

Swamped, the Tanit and Elissa foundered around 800 B.C., coming to rest upright some 1,300 feet under the Mediterranean, too deep for recovery.

[vannrox]

I love this stuff.

[lizma]

me too.

[My back yard]

Interesting, it is. Bump.

[jimtorr]

I went the the web site of the American Journal of Archaeology, but I see they want $75 for a subsciption. I think I'll settle for USA Today.

On the other hand, the magazine "Archaeology", which is "An Official Publication of the Archaeological Institute of America", as they put it, is online. Much of the magazine is available online. Here's a link, if you don't know of it already:

http://www.archaeology.org/

Archaeology doesn't seem to have the ship story yet. Maybe in a few weeks.

The magazine seems to be written for people like you and I, who just love this stuff.

[stands2reason]

bump

[FastCoyote]

I just can't get enough of the ancient ship stories.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG homepage, not sending a general distribution.

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Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.

[SunkenCiv]