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12 shipwrecks uncovered in the east Med dating from 300 BC
Daily Mail Online ^
| Tuesday, April 21, 2020
| Jonathan Chadwick
Posted on 04/21/2020 12:55:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
· British expedition uncovers a wealth of wonders dating from the year 300 BC in the eastern Mediterranean
· 12 shipwrecks and their cargoes include a colossal 17th century ship that fits 'two normal ships' on its deck
· The ships reveal a trade route from China to Persia, Red Sea and east Mediterranean for food and porcelain
Archaeologists have found shipwrecks in the Mediterranean filled with hundreds of artefacts including Chinese porcelain, jugs, coffee pots, peppercorns and illicit tobacco pipes.
A British-led expedition found a cluster of 12 ships on the sea bed, 1.2 miles below the surface of the Levantine Sea, using sophisticated robots.
The ships were recovered in ancient 'shipping lanes' that served spice and silk trades of the Greek, Roman and Ottoman empires, from 300 BC onwards.
The ancient ships -- including the biggest ever found in the Med -- were unearthed in a muddy part of the eastern seabed between Cyprus and Lebanon, where remnants are often hard to find.
'It doesn't get better than this,' Sean Kingsley, archaeologist at the Enigma Shipwreck Project (ESP) told BBC Radio 4.
'For an archaeologist it's the equivalent of finding a new planet.
'There's sort of an embarrassment of wonders here -- we've got the earliest Chinese Ming dynasty porcelain found under the Mediterranean Sea.
'They're quite hard to find but when you do find them they're incredibly well preserved.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; godsgravesglyphs; navigation; romanempire; shipwreck; shipwrecks
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posted on
04/21/2020 3:12:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: BenLurkin
Ming porcelain is supposed to be quite valuable.
The dishes and plates in the photo looks like
a small fortune. (If it's really from Ming era China
or earlier.)
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posted on
04/21/2020 3:18:12 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: yarddog
You’re right. They dug canals to connect the Red Sea with the Nile River. The ancient canal turned west where the modern one goes north. Eventually, it silted up and goods arriving from the Red Sea had to be portaged to the Nile or the Mediterranean.
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posted on
04/21/2020 3:28:25 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Jewbacca
To: BradyLS
I have read, many years ago, that there was either an early version of the Suez Canal or a port which allowed ships to access the Nile in Egypt.
To: BenLurkin
I swear I eat off of pottery that looks like that every day.
46
posted on
04/21/2020 3:49:34 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
I remember reading of a 1800s sunk Clipper Ship find in which the porcelain, salvaged in the 1980s, went for HIGH DOLLAR!
To: yarddog
Captain Nemo and his NAUTALIS found an underwater-underground tunnel from the Suez to the Med.
To: CJ Wolf
The Chinese by the 1600s were making a lot of those for import. They had different marks and some were knockoffs.
So theyve been ripping the West off for at least 500 years.
Figures.
L
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posted on
04/21/2020 3:57:55 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Lurker
I think there was some kinda plague around that time exported to Europe as well.
50
posted on
04/21/2020 4:39:25 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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posted on
04/21/2020 6:02:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Larry Lucido
I am thinking insurance fraud....
52
posted on
04/22/2020 9:49:37 AM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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