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Excavating The 'Perfect Ship' (Black Sea)
SunSpot.net ^ | 8-18-2003 | Frank D Roylance

Posted on 08/18/2003 11:13:18 AM PDT by blam

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sunspot.net ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacksea; excavating; godsgravesglyphs; perfect; ship; shipwreck
Baltimore Sun articles must be excerpted.

This is a good article, go read it.

1 posted on 08/18/2003 11:13:18 AM PDT by blam
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To: farmfriend; RightWhale
Ping.
2 posted on 08/18/2003 11:13:54 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
I remember reading or hearing about this awhile back. So very intersting. Thanks for the post.
3 posted on 08/18/2003 11:15:11 AM PDT by bedolido (None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
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To: blam
The Toyota Sienna is pretty good, but I don't know if it's a perfect ship.
4 posted on 08/18/2003 11:20:21 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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Be-bump-a-lula...
5 posted on 08/18/2003 11:24:35 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: blam
Very interesting! BTTT.
6 posted on 08/18/2003 11:27:26 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: blam; *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; bd476; carenot; CatoRenasci; ckilmer; ellery; Eva; freedom9; ...
Gods, Graves, Glyphs
List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.

7 posted on 08/18/2003 11:30:36 AM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: blam
I heard about this a while back. Probably some very interesting things trapped within the time machine called the Balck Sea.
8 posted on 08/18/2003 12:36:38 PM PDT by AdA$tra (Hypocricy is the Vaseline of social intercourse....)
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"Probably some very interesting things trapped within the time machine called the Balck Sea."

I expect to be suprised.

9 posted on 08/18/2003 3:37:27 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
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.

10 posted on 08/18/2003 11:35:01 PM PDT by happygrl
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11 posted on 04/12/2006 7:15:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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