Excavating The 'Perfect Ship' (Black Sea)

SunSpot.net ^ | 8-18-2003 | Frank D Roylance

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Excavating the 'perfect ship'

Treasures: A robot is enabling archaeologists to explore a wooden wreck, preserved for more than a millennium at the bottom of the Black Sea.

By Frank D. Roylance
Sun Staff
Originally published August 18, 2003

Somewhere off Turkey's Black Sea coast, in a grave a thousand feet beneath the waves, a ghostly mast stands erect in the gloom.

Preserved for 1,500 years by the scarcity of oxygen in the Black Sea's depths, the wooden mast provides a tantalizing hint of the historical treasure that archaeologists have now begun to excavate.

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Baltimore Sun articles must be excerpted.

This is a good article, go read it.

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Ping.

[bedolido]

I remember reading or hearing about this awhile back. So very intersting. Thanks for the post.

[RightWhale]

The Toyota Sienna is pretty good, but I don't know if it's a perfect ship.

[okie01]

Be-bump-a-lula...

[Constitution Day]

Very interesting! BTTT.

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
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[AdA$tra]

I heard about this a while back. Probably some very interesting things trapped within the time machine called the Balck Sea.

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"Probably some very interesting things trapped within the time machine called the Balck Sea."

I expect to be suprised.

[happygrl]

The more we uncover the geologic catastrophes of the past, the more fascinating are the results for human history.

Now, if they'd only figure out a way to uncover the secrets of the Sahara when it still had rivers flowing through it.

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