Posted on 04/21/2020 12:55:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
294 topics from the "shipwreck" keyword, chrono sorted, probably some overlap with the earlier list, but that one will only reach back to 2014 and a specific line length:
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.
Maybe it was opium.
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.
I swear I eat off of pottery that looks like that every day.
I remember reading of a 1800s sunk Clipper Ship find in which the porcelain, salvaged in the 1980s, went for HIGH DOLLAR!
Captain Nemo and his NAUTALIS found an underwater-underground tunnel from the Suez to the Med.
“The Chinese by the 1600s were making a lot of those for import. They had different marks and some were knockoffs.”
So they’ve been ripping the West off for at least 500 years.
Figures.
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I think there was some kinda plague around that time exported to Europe as well.
I am thinking insurance fraud....
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