Posted on 03/22/2007 12:29:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of Bosnia-Herzegovina's archaeologists have discovered for the first time the remnants of fabled Illyrian ships in a marshland in southern Herzegovina... some eight metres under the water of Hutovo blato, a marshland near the southern town of Capljina. The Illyrian ships, believed to be more than 2,200 years old, had been known to historians only through Greek and Roman myths and legends... The Hutovo blato marshland... became their final destination after they sailed in from the Adriatic Sea which is connected with the marshland by the Neretva River... [T]he experts there also discovered some 80 amphoras lids and more than 30 fragments of amphora, some even with the hallmark. Remains of an ancient Roman villa and an entire Roman spear were found at the same location, as well as seven graves, believed to date from Bronze or Iron Age. Illyrians were the earliest inhabitants of the Western Balkans, including Bosnia, long before the Roman Empire took control over the region.
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If I was writing this article, I would have put something in their about the myths and legends which would have explained perhaps why 8 ships were sunk at that location and whose history was interesting enough to become storied.
I think they just got stuck in the mud. :')
If getting stuck in the mud qualifies for the myth/legend status in that part of the world, they need to send their kids to Texas A&M.
:') I think the ships were probably just renowned for being advanced for their time, and the art of building them vanished after the Roman conquest (or the builders were put to work building Rome's considerable navy and merchant marine). ;')
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