[SunkenCiv]

A trove of Phoenician artifacts was long ascribed to a single shipwreck. More likely they were tossed overboard, and over centuries, a new study suggests.

[ClearCase_guy]

“I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed...” ― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon

[wildbill]

So we’re supposed to ascribe to their new theory of how this loose jumble of figures were the result of lots of sailors throwing them overboard during several centuries at this exact spot in the Med sea???

I grant that Phoenicians were great mariners, but that would be beyond their abilities unless the spot was marked in some way like near a reef or something physical which the archeologists don’t mention in their article

I don’t buy it. Every archeologist wants to find something that has an unknown origin and devine a “new” theory that will make him famous in their fraternity.