(University of Malta/CNRS/COMEX)
Posted on 08/28/2014 4:25:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists from the French National Research Agency and Texas A&M University are part of a team that has recovered 20 Phoenician grinding stones and 50 amphorae about one mile off the coast of Malta’s Gozo Island. Timothy Gambin of the University of Malta told the Associated Press that the ship was probably traveling between Sicily and Malta when it sank ca. 700 B.C. The team will continue to look for other artifacts and parts of the vessel, which sits at a depth of almost 400 feet and is one of the oldest shipwrecks to be discovered in the central Mediterranean. To read about a Phoenician shipwreck excavated off the coast of Spain, see ARCHAEOLOGY's online exclusive "History's 10 Greatest Wrecks."
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(University of Malta/CNRS/COMEX)
Will they be able to determine what was in some of those? Were any sealed closed?
Isn’t 400 ft. fairly deep?
I wouldn’t have thought there was that much light
at that depth.
Mars at mid-day is like twilight here, but with the proper settings, we get some pix that are better than what I could see with the naked eye.
/johnny
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Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY
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The seals on jugs were big wood plugs, just like now (or rather, just as recently), but it’s possible that the contents can be figured out. Of course, they probably made more than one trip, and had different contents at different times, and some of those contents may have left more of a trace.
Thanks!
What would folks say if they found some of them jugs full of diesel fuel? I hope to see Malta someday or in the next pass thru perhaps.. Interesting history.
some of them might have been buried just right and the wood petrified with a sandy concrete-like crust on them. Although I guess that would be very rare.
:’) additional link:
Ancient Shipwreck off Malta Leaves 700 BC Cargo
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ancient-shipwreck-off-malta-leaves-700-bc-cargo-25113822
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