Synopsis. Recently, archaeologists discovered a 1,200-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Israel. A report describes it as a merchant ship, indicating trade continued after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land.
Archaeologists have recently discovered a shipwreck off the coast of Israel, which is believed to be 1,200 years old. It is believed to be a merchant ship, that suggests trading continued after the Islamic co quest of the Holy Land, according to a report in. The shipwreck is dated to the 7th or 8th century AD.
The Extremely Ancient Dokos Shipwreck
Among them, the Dokos wreck is thought to be the oldest shipwreck found to date. It dates before c. 2200 BCE, judging by the pottery cargo it carried. It was discovered by Peter in 1975 at a depth of fifteen to thirty meters near the Greek island of Dokos.
Marine archaeologists believe the ship dates to sometime between 1300 – 1850. It was found at the bottom of the lake Mjøsa, at 410 metres. “Mjøsa is like a mini-ocean, or a really large fjord,” says marine archaeologist Øyvind Ødegård from NTNU. For centuries, ships and boats have travelled these waters.
The ship was loaded with an estimated $17 billion worth of gold, silver and jewels when it sank in 1708, and its wreck was only discovered in 2015. The navy used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to examine the wreck; its precise location is being kept a secret to deter treasure hunters.
One study found there is only about one gram of gold for every 100 million metric tons of ocean water in the Atlantic and north Pacific. There is also (undissolved) gold in/on the seafloor. The ocean, however, is deep, meaning that gold deposits are a mile or two underwater.
On July 20, 1985 - 35 years ago today - Mel Fisher discovered the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora De Atocha off the Florida Keys. The cargo's value is estimated to be worth around $400 million. The treasure includes 24 tons of silver bullion, ingots, and coins, 125 gold bars and discs and 1,200 pounds silverware.
A Greek merchant ship discovered more than a mile under the surface of the Black Sea has been radiocarbon dated to 2,400 years ago, making it the world's oldest known intact shipwreck.
He said wrecks older than the Titanic have contained remnants of crew or passengers. Eight sailors' remains were discovered on the H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine that sank in 1864. And human bones were found at a first-century B.C. freighter wreck near the Greek island of Antikythera.
Kevin Rawlinson at The Guardian reports that the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (MAP) has discovered an Greek merchant vessel on the floor of the sea dating back to about 400 B.C., the oldest known intact shipwreck ever discovered. The MAP team discovered the ship 50 miles off the coast of Bulgaria.
Earlier this year, ocean explorer Victor Vescovo went in search of the Roberts' final resting place in the Philippines - 22,621 feet below the surface. He and his team found 306 feet of mangled metal. It was the deepest shipwreck discovery in history.
Maybe you've heard the story of the Titanic. I think there was a movie about it? For the most part, the only people who've ever seen the Titanic since the night of April 15, 1912, when it sunk beneath the North Atlantic, have been scientists.
Diver discovers 1,800-year-old shipwreck off Israel with "rare" marble artifacts. A man diving off the coast of Israel discovered an "enormous, rare cargo" of centuries-old marble artifacts underwater, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday.
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest ship still afloat.
A N.S. ghost ship is fading from memory — 150 years after its crew disappeared. The Mary Celeste, a Nova Scotia-built brigantine, became the world's most famous ghost ship when it was found drifting without any crew on board in 1872. Today the ship and its Nova Scotia connections are fading from memory.
In the 111 years that have followed the disaster, expeditions to the Titanic have not found any human remains, according to RMS Titanic Inc, the company that owns rights to the wreckage.
While many of the unrecovered bodies remain entombed in the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the North Atlantic, the recovery of those discovered provided a way to pay tribute to the victims and honor their memory.
The largest human skeleton ever found was 25 1/2 feet long with a width of 10 feet from the left to the right shoulder, and a depth of 5 feet when measured from the back to the breastbone.
The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica.
Figures vary, but the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) estimates 40 to 45 vessels remain trapped in Ukraine. Others suggest the number may be as high as 60.
Naturally, the fortuitous party who discovered the loot wants it considered abandoned and thus “finders-keepers.” Finding hidden treasure in the home you own is usually yours to keep under the law.
A 2009 NASA mission—in which a rocket slammed into the moon and a second spacecraft studied the blast—revealed that the lunar surface contains an array of compounds, including gold, silver, and mercury, according to PBS.