Treasure at Site of 9/11 Tragedy
Updated: 2011-08-31 05:51:00
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By rian Handwerk - National Geographic
Archaeologists explore the newfound remains of an 18th-century ship's rear, or stern, at ground zero (map) in New York City last summer. With the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaching, researchers found the ship's bow, or front, last month.The unexpected piece of New York history turned up in the future parking garage of the new World Trade Center, which will eventually feature five new skyscrapers...
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By illie Drye - National Geographic
After 15 years of uncertainty, a shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina has been confirmed as that of the infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard, state officials say.The Queen Anne's Revenge grounded on a sandbar near Beaufort in 1718, nine years after the town had been established. Blackbeard and his crew abandoned the ship and survived.Until recently, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources emphasized...
A lost Roman amphitheatre has been found atop a hill in northern England. Crowning the summit of Studforth Hill, the oval arena would have combined spectacles and entertainments with a magnificent 360-degree view, making it the equivalent of a national theatre of the north. The find by Cambridge University archaeologists – led by a young [...]
By Fadzli Ramli - Bernama
At a glance, nobody will be able to guess that Sharipah Lok Lok Sy Idrus is a researcher of ship wrecks, as well as an underwater treasure hunter. Sharipah Lok Lok, who is the Assistant Curator of the Museum Department, has proven that her petite figure is no obstacle for her to conduct various types of salvaging work, including diving into the sea to retrieve items from sunken galleons, barges and man-of-wars. "Small physical build is not a big challenge, but what...
By Fadzli Ramli - Bernama
Seafarers from all over the world have sailed through the waters of Malay archipelago for centuries. Some of their vessels succumbed to inclement weather, leaks or attack and ended at the bottom of the sea. Many came from China, the Middle East, as well as within the Malay archipelago. "The ship wrecks are like time capsules, each with their own tales to tell," National Museum Director-General Datuk Ibrahim Ismail told Bernama after holding a news conference on the...
By tephen Bates - The Guardian
Windfarm project to preserve wreckage from 'battle' of the Isle of May - navy's 1918 catastrophe that left 270 dead.
An underwater war grave containing the victims of one of the worst British naval disasters of the first world war has been surveyed for the first time so it can be preserved in the middle of a windfarm.The two K Class submarines were destroyed on 31 January 1918 during the so-called battle of the Isle of May, in which 270 lives were lost. The...
If you’ve got $2.7 million lying around and have no idea what to spend it on, may I suggest buying a Civil War battlefield in Georgia. The Kennesaw tract entered Civil War history in June 1864, when Sherman’s army was pushing south from Tennessee toward Atlanta. In their path was Kennesaw Mountain and its heavy [...]
The wall of a cairn, an ancient burial mound, from the Parthian Empire has been found in Northern Iran. A coin and a copper artifact of the medieval Islamic civilization were also found at the archaeological site in Nowshahr in Mazandaran province, the Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization said. The Affelle archaeological site is about [...]
A unique Roman jar riddled with holes is stumping scientists who have never come across anything like it before. “Everyone’s stumped by it,” Katie Urban, one of the researchers at the London, Ontario, museum, told LiveScience. “We’ve been sending it around to all sorts of Roman pottery experts and other pottery experts, and no one [...]
By lazar Semini - Stuff
A US-Albanian archaeological mission claims to have found the well-preserved wreck of a Roman cargo ship off Albania's coast, complete with some 300 wine jars — all empty, alas.
The 30-metre long wreck dates to the 1st century BC and its cargo is believed to have been the produce of southern Albanian vineyards en route to western European markets, including France.
A statement from the Key West, Florida-based RPM Nautical Foundation said the find was...
An analysis of an Egyptian mummies hair shows that a fat-based product was used to hold their hair styles in place. McCreesh thinks that the fatty coating is a styling product that was used to set hair in place. It was found on both natural and artificial mummies, so she believes that it was a [...]
Three medieval abbey walls have been found at a hotel in Conwy, Wales. He said: “The grounds here are a scheduled ancient monument, because of the importance of the abbey in its day, so Gwynedd Archaeological Trust were on site when we found the first wall. “It’s believed to be the cloister wall of the [...]
High levels of erosion are threatening Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 settlement on St. Croix Island. It’s the first time the water around the site has been examined. The research team from Submerged Resources Center of the United States National Park Services is focused on a small cove on the Canadian side of the island. Combing [...]
By Randy Boswell - UNATSIAQ News
A Parks Canada-led team of researchers is trying — again — to unravel the ultimate Arctic mystery: the whereabouts of the lost ships of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.
The experts are armed with everything from historical Inuit testimony and the scrawled writings of 19th-century explorers to state-of-the art seabed scanners and the latest computer simulations of ice movement through the Arctic Archipelago.
And while underwater...
The wreck of a warship which sank in 1564 has been found off the coast of Sweden. Historians believe the ship may be the Mars, the head of Erik XIV’s fleet. “Everything suggests that it is indeed the Mars that we have found,” Richard Lundgren, one of the divers, said in the statement. “The size [...]
A 19th century site that shows evidence of Toronto’s railway boom is set to be demolished for the construction of new condominiums. The dig, adjacent to the Bathurst Street bridge south of Front Street, uncovered the foundations of part of a giant cruciform-shaped building that in the 1850s housed the steam engine service and repair [...]
43 medieval tombs have been uncovered near the coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria. 43 tombs have been found in the area of the so-called Church 2 in Kaliakra. The most precious find there is a stamp with the portrait of the Virgin Mary, discovered on August 15th, the very same day when the [...]
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By arl Nolte - San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Von der Porten, a San Francisco nautical historian and archaeologist, has a sea story to tell - of disease and death and the shipwreck of a Spanish galleon full of the treasures of Asia. He holds up a piece of delicate blue and white porcelain, part of a broken bowl. It shows a bird standing in a pond, a boat, a Chinese pagoda. It is a piece more than 435 years old, salvaged from a bleak and remote beach in Baja...
By Shira Levine - Fox News
Those who’e sported SCUBA or snorkel gear and submerged beneath the surface of the sea have witnessed the fantastical underworld that lies below. Through the lens of a diving mask is a flooded universe where a symphony of plant life sways back and forth to the sub aqua beat, and gangs of fish nose around for something to eat.
To look out across a seascape is to delve into the dynamic and awe-inspiring; while at the same time observe something dark, scary and...
From Physorg
The Russian submersibles involved in EPFL’ elemo project have discovered a new wreck on the bottom of the lake. Underwater archaeology is benefiting from scanners developed for scientific research.
“It’ always a memorable moment when you find an unknown shipwreck. It’ not on the maps, and after having gone around it, I didn’ see any inscription on its hull,” explains Evgeny Chernyaev, who was piloting the submersible. Diving off the shores...
A 3D scan of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy shows that the was of high status because his organs were removed and replaced with rolls of linen. The images indicate that embalmers removed the man’s brain and major organs and replaced them with rolls of linen, a superior embalming method used only for those of high [...]
By orna Siggins - Irish Times
A diving expedition on the wreck of the Lusitania has recovered some key pieces of equipment, which were handed over to the receiver of wrecks last night.A bronze telemotor, which was part of the ship’ steering mechanism, was among the items recovered from the vessel, which sank 11 miles off Kinsale Head, Co Cork, in 1915 after it was torpedoed by a German submarine.The dive team, led by Eoin McGarry and sponsored by National Geographic, also recovered...
New evidence found at a fort in England points to a more advanced Roman textile industry than previously thought. These fabric scraps, it turns out, provide evidence that Rome developed an unparalleled textile industry. Romans established factories throughout their empire, having learned effective loom building from the Egyptians. Dyes allowed the creation of riotous color [...]
The remains of 12 children and 20 llamas sacrificed 800 years ago have been found near the ancient city of Chan Chan in Peru. Experts believe the children and animals were killed in a ritual similar to the Incan ceremony known as Capacocha, which was organized before the imminent death or birth of an Incan [...]
More than 6,000 artifacts have been uncovered at the site of a 7,000-year-old village found in Des Moines, Iowa. The site, nicknamed “the Palace” because of its size and preservation, yielded the remains of two humans, a woman and an infant, that are the oldest human bones to be found in the state. “It’s always [...]
LiveScience has posted an interesting interview with paleoanthropologist Sandi Copeland. It’s sometimes nice to learn a little bit about the people behind interesting finds. What is your favorite thing about being a researcher? It is thrilling to discover something that no one else has discovered before, whether it is an actual fossil or the result of [...]
Archaeologists working at a Georgia Civil War prison camp have unearthed a collection of artifacts. The Yankee soldier, who had meager possessions, must have been proud of his ring and its distinctive diamond-shaped centerpiece. Somehow, the size-11 ring was lost, discarded or left behind, only to be swallowed by the earth on a rise near [...]
From ur Amazing Planet
A group of Norwegian investors wish to use balloons to raise the ship from its current resting place, load it onto a barge and send it across the Atlantic to be showcased in a museum."The incredibly strong-built oak ship has been helped by the Arctic cold and clean water to be kept in a reasonably good shape," said Jan Wanggaard, project manager for the Norwegian scheme, after a recent visit to the wreck, the AFP reported.
The Maud, a 120-foot (36.5-meter) vessel...
By John Bordsen - Post Gazette
Piotr Bojakowski, 32, has been working in Bermuda for about a year as an archaeologist and conservator at the National Museum of Bermuda. We interviewed this native of Poland who has been researching the wreck of the Warwick, a 17th-century ship. Q: What's the story on the wreck ? A: In October 1619, the Warwick came to Bermuda with colonists and cargo; it was a stopping point for the English ship, which was bound for Jamestown in Virginia. The ship was here about...
By Wes Helbling Bastrop Daily Enterprise
A large steamboat that burned and sank in Morehouse Parish over a century ago has been recorded as an archaeological site with the state of Louisiana. For decades the subject of local legends, the sunken boat is now designated as “Big Horn Steamboat Wreck,” Archaeological Site No. 16MO185. The “MO” stands for Morehouse, and the “185” means this is the 185th archaeological site reported in the parish. Dennis Jones...
From Viêt-Nam News
An inter-disciplinary team from different agencies in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has begun to survey a shipwreck believed to date back to the early 19th century. The survey is conducted to assess the feasibility of salvaging the ship and help authorities make a decision.The shipwreck is located two metres underwater and 100m off Xuan Thien Ha Beach in Phu Vang District's Vinh Xuan Commune, said Phan Tien Dung, director of the Thua Thien-Hue Department for...
By ebecca Martin - The Local
Swedish divers have uncovered what they believe to be the legendary Swedish warship Mars, lost in a sea battle with the Danish-Lübeckian navy in 1564, near the coast of the Baltic island of Öland.
“The ship is lying port-side up and the site is virtually littered with cannons," said diver Richard Lundgren to The Local. Mars was one of the largest ships of its time with 107 guns and a crew of 800 men, both out-sizing and outgunning the famous...
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