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Thanks Albion Wilde.

2 posted on 04/21/2020 12:55:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Enigmatic and Astonishing Tales of the Sea, B.C.


5 posted on 04/21/2020 1:03:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting story, but there’s a head-scratcher with the map they show talking about the colossal 17th century wreck. They map the article shows says the ship sailed from Jengdezhan in China to the Levantine Sea (Easter Med.), where it foundered, via...the Suez (Canal)?

The canal wasn’t built until the late 1800’s. Common knowledge!

I can see the route going to the Suez and then ships from China off-loaded so goods could travel overland to a port on the Mediterranean and then picked up again to sail to other ports on another ship—perhaps even the one they found. Otherwise, a ship would have sail all the way around Africa—which could happen but not if it would make goods prohibitively expensive.


12 posted on 04/21/2020 1:13:23 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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18 posted on 04/21/2020 1:24:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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20 posted on 04/21/2020 1:25:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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