Archaeologists give tentative name to shipwreck
Updated: 2011-07-31 04:57:00
By Wes Helbling - Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Professional archaeologists may have finally solved the mystery behind a sunken steamboat in Bayou Bartholomew that has intrigued local residents for decades. Dennis Jones with the state Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, Division of Archaeology and Allen Saltus Jr. with Archaeological Research Inc. conducted the first formal study of the site Friday. As a result of their work, the sunken vessel can now be confirmed as a steamboat and will...
Photo Richard Glueck By Nick McCrea - Bangor Daily News
A chance meeting in November in a New Jersey rest stop parking lot between two Mainers — one a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and the other a shipwreck buff — led them to bond over an Italian liner that sank 55 years ago.Bob Wallace, 75, of Penobscot, who retired in 1973 after a 20-year Coast Guard career, saw another driver getting out of a car with a Maine license plate. The two struck up a conversation. The other Mainer, Richard...
By hawn J. Soper - The Dispatch
A local girl with a penchant for collecting sea glass made a rare discovery last week when she uncovered a centuries-old coin dating back to 1655 in the dune on the beach in Fenwick Island.Last weekend, 9-year-old Ella Peters was combing the beach in Fenwick when she came across a rather rare find, an old coin dating back to 1655 that likely washed ashore sometime in the last 350 years or so. From a young age, Bishopville resident Ella Peters has had a fascination...
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By Emerson Whitney - Fence Viewer
The skeleton of an unidentified wooden schooner is slowly disappearing into the muddy inter-tidal zone here. The official location is being kept secret and the history of the timbers scattered along the shoreline is a complete mystery.But Franklin Price, a Mount Desert Island High School graduate and accomplished shipwreck archeologist, will return home this August in an attempt to uncover the wreck and its story.The “Seal...
A mosaic-covered wall has been found in a tunnel built to support Trajan’s Baths. Archaeologists and city officials unveiled the recent find to reporters Friday on the Oppian Hill. The mosaic-covered wall is 16 meters (53 feet) wide and at least 2 meters (6.6 feet) high. Officials think the wall continues down some 8 meters [...]
From Hydro International
The remains of the German submarine U-513 have been discovered off the coast of Brazil. The sub was sunk by bombs dropped from an American plane in July 1943.
Only seven of the 53 men on board survived the attack. Researchers from Kat Schurmann Institute and Vale do Itajai University located the U-513 almost 68 years to the day after it sank. On 14th July 2011 the side-scan produced definitive images of the remains of a pressure hull on the ocean bottom. The final resting...
By Greg Nesteroff - Nelson Star
An expedition this month to the SS City of Ainsworth found the historic Kootenay Lake shipwreck remains in generally good condition.“We were all very excited to see that the vessel hasn’ deteriorated as much as we might have thought,” says Bill Meekel of the Underwater Archaeological Society of BC, who led the search.“At least the hull and main structure of the [lower] deck and paddlewheel were all still pretty much intact. It’ still...
Tanks from WWII, which sank on the way to the D-Day landings near the Isle of Wight, are being studied in order to better protect them. The vessel was carrying two Centaur CS IV tanks, two armoured bulldozers designed to destroy any anti-tank devices on the beach, a jeep and other military equipment for the [...]
An Etruscan holy site which dates back 3,000 years have been found 50 miles north of Rome. A number of materials were linked to cult fires and “clear evidence of votive offerings,” Cardarelli said. “Religious activities 1,000 years B.C. were carried out through fire,” he said. “Offerings were burnt for the gods — sacred objects, [...]
A tomb believed to belong to St. Philip has been unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Hierapolis in Turkey. Italian professor Francesco D’Andria said archeologists found the tomb of the biblical figure — one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus — while working on the ruins of a newly-unearthed church, Turkish news [...]
Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 2,800-year-old monument carved by the Olmecs. The work – standing more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall – was discovered in late April on the north slope of Chalcatzingo as archaeologists were building a containing wall and protective roofs for the other monoliths in the area. Sculpted on the [...]
Excavations of sites in Peru have revealed that war and a devastating fire ended the Taraco people. Their results suggest Pukara waged a violent war against Taraco, possibly killing hundreds with their weapons before burning the state to the ground. “In the century that Pukara peaked, the site of Taraco was attacked, and [it] ceased [...]
Archaeologists in Madrid have begun a search for the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. The project to seek Cervantes’ bones, which lie buried somewhere in the walls or floors of a convent in central Madrid, would allow forensic archaeologists to reconstruct the face of a man only known from a picture [...]
Engine parts from a German bomber shot down during the Battle of Britain have been found in an garden in Somerset, England. Engine parts of the Heinkel were left 5ft (1.5m) underground in Puriton for over 70 years archaeologists have said. Homeowner Alan Jennings said: “It’s not everyday you get someone knock on the door [...]
The remains of a church has been found in the ancient city of Pisidian Antioch in Turkey. “We have found the remains of a three-nave church one and a half meters below the surface,” Ozhanli told AA correspondent. Ozhanli said the building was constructed as a Pagan temple, however it was converted to a church [...]
The discovery of 600-year-old coins in Kashmir has set off a looting spree. A melee broke out on Saturday evening among the labourers and locals in Srinagar’s Shree Bhat area when the National Building Construction Corporation, digging a deep sewage, stumbled upon an earthen pot containing hundreds of coins. “People mistook the coins for gold [...]
An image of a speared reindeer found carved into a cave wall may be the oldest rock art in Britain. “This drawing was done with the right hand and the niche is very, very tight and the engraving has been done by somebody using a piece of flint who has drawn a classic reindeer design. [...]
From Paul Fraser Collectibles
Two medals awarded to Captain Bligh, who survived the 1789 mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty, are coming to auction this week.The medals, which postdate the mutiny, are estimated to achieve a combined $273,000 when they appear at Noble Numismatics in Melbourne, Australia on Thursday, July 28.The first, estimated to make $55,000, was awarded to Bligh by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for successfully bringing back breadfruit from Tahiti...
An ancient campsite has been found in New Brunswick that proves First Nations people move through the area when portions of it was still under ice. “We had individual spear points that we knew were that old. But it’s just we never had the sites to give us contextual information — like what people were [...]
By Anni Fordham - Fremantle-Cockburn Gazette
Site works at Bathers Beach have been suspended after asbestos and historically significant artefacts were found.A statement from the City of Fremantle said the findings were being taken seriously but would have a minor impact on the development.University of Notre Dame archaeologist Shane Burke is assessing the significance of the artefacts, which are believed to be domestic items from the period 1850 to 1900.The artefacts include items such as black...
National Geographic has compiled a list of the top five theories on why the Inca built Machu Picchu. Nestled atop a mountain ridge in Peru, the 15th-century Inca city of Machu Picchu had sat largely forgotten for centuries—until archaeologist Hiram Bingham began excavations of the ruins a hundred years ago this week. Now one of [...]
Two 10,000-year-old skulls found in a sand quarry in Sommerset, England, has led to the discovery of the UK’s ‘oldest’ open-air cemetery. An analysis of weapons belonging to the Ancient Egyptian elite show that they were actually used in battle or for executions, and not just held for ceremonial purposes. The new findings show that [...]
A tiny golden bell which was lost 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem has been found near the Old City. The bell was found inside the main drainage channel taking rainwater from different parts of the city to the pool of Siloam, which is mentioned several times in the Bible. “Apparently, the high official was walking [...]
By Michael Miller - Press of Atlantic City
Retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Joseph Tidwell will return to Cape May on Sunday for the first time since he was rescued during a submarine attack off the coast in World War II.Tidwell, 91, worked in the engine room aboard the USS Jacob Jones, a destroyer that was hunting German submarines off Cape May County.He was one of only 11 survivors in the Feb. 27, 1942, attack that sunk the ship and killed 131 sailors. He is returning to Cape May all these years...
12,000-year-old rock art has been found in a cave in Germany, making it the first Stone Age artwork ever found in the country. “They include schematic depictions of women’s bodies and unidentifiable symbols, among other things,” she said. The ancient artists appear to have taken their inspiration for the erotic images from rock formations in [...]
The construction of a Sainsbury’s in Scotland has uncovered burned oak which was used as a heat source somewhere back in the Mesolithic era. “The lack of any other Mesolithic dating on the site suggests that there was no settlement in the area, and that instead the hearth represents a temporary rest stop.” Nomadic hunter-gatherers [...]
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Shipwrecks aren't really considered a modern problem. Air transportation, which is obviously much more efficient, supplanted ocean liners decades ago, causing the romanticism that came with setting out on long overseas journeys to fade. Even still, ships remain a large part of worldwide commerce and transportation, the latter of which is more common in poor countries, where unfortunate accidents are more frequent. The following shipwrecks range from small-scale tragedies...
An examination of 14 Norse burials in England have revealed that more Viking women took place in the invasions than previously thought. Women may have accompanied male Vikings in those early invasions of England, in much greater numbers than scholars earlier supposed, McLeod concludes. Rather than the ravaging rovers of legend, the Vikings arrived as [...]
Over 300 convict-era artifacts have been found underneath the floorboards of Hobart’s historic Penitentiary Chapel in Tasmania. The discovery at Hobart’s historic Penitentiary Chapel includes coins, clay pipes, home-made wooden gambling tokens, a writing slate and bones. Archaeologist David Roe says it is particularly exciting because the artefacts are very personal items belonging to the [...]
By manda Schupak - Live Sciences
Scientists have explored less than 4 percent of the world's ocean floor. Imagine all the sunken treasures they're missing ! If listening to Celine Dion and watching yet another Pirates of the Carribean flick won't quiet the booty-hunter in you, follow these steps to find a shipwreck of your very own. (Note: You're gonna need a boat.) Step 1. Volunteer Honestly, you probably don't know what you're doing, so it's best to first hook yourself up with...
Cleanup operations for the BP oil spill has revealed dozens of archaeological sites left behind by prehistoric Indian settlements. So far, teams of archaeologists hired by the oil giant have visited more than 100 sites and sent back a growing list of finds to labs for radiocarbon dating and other tests, though extensive excavations haven’t [...]
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By Ryan Buffa - St Augustine.com
Late last month, amid great fanfare, archaeologists raised two cannons from 30 feet under the ocean, just a short distance from the St. Augustine Lighthouse.Now those archaeologists of the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program are trying to uncover the cannons' secrets. After centuries hidden below the sea, the cannons will have their stories to themselves a little longer."These were found in a jumble," said archaeological conservator...
WOW what a great 4th! Everybody was so happy and friendly. Met the nicest folks from Bonifay, Marianna, Indiana, Birmingham etc. We had a sweet group for our Facebook fan pic at the flag pole at noon. I was in the right place at the right time and watched a little girl chase a tree frog around for [...]