A Ground-Breaking Discovery: The Earliest Ship Ever Found in the Deep Seas
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A 3,300-year-old ship’s cargo with hundreds of intact amphorae discovered 90 km from shore at a depth of 1.8 km on the Mediterranean Sea floor.
This is the most ancient ship ever found in the world in the deep seas - ninety kilometers from northern Israel’s coast. This dramatic find is the first proof of its kind attesting to the skill of ancient mariners - they were able to traverse the sea without a line of sight to the coast. The ship’s cargo was found during a standard seafloor survey by Energean, a leading natural gas E&P company operating in the East Mediterranean, and is being investigated by the Israel Antiquities Authority. In response to this discovery Energean mounted a unique operation to physically extract and bring up sample vessels from the ship. The vessels will be presented to the public in the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, which will soon host a limited series of tours
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Great discovery, lucky you are the ones who are the choosen one for such disciveries ;). 2km under water??? WOW! ❤❤❤
The find of a lifetime no doubt! How exciting for all involved in this discovery. God willing I hope to visit and see the artifacts at the museum very soon. Amazing, just amazing... great job!
This was probably a Phoenician or an Ugaritic ship traveling to Cyprus or Mycenean Greece, or vice versa - an early Greek ship travelling to the Levant. Could be a Hittite one as well, but it's less likely i think.
So so cool! I wonder what was kept in them jars. I love you Princess Yehudia wherever you are. ☕😉
מדהים 😮!
It is a great discovery, but I don't see how it proves they could navigate out of sight of land? This ship presumably didn't sink by choice, so how do we know it arrived at that spot by choice? Surely an alternative hypothesis is that it was simply blown off course by a storm before finally being overpowered and sunk by that storm? Have I missed something? 🤔
@tinknal6449
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I see your point but traveling coastlines was tricky business and far more dangerous than the open seas. I would imagine those folks figured that out pretty quickly. Also, even then time was money and a direct trip would be more profitable than hugging the coastline for hundreds of miles. The Phoenicians were known as a seafaring people.
@DarrenGedye
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@@tinknal6449 Yeah, CS Lewis referred to the tendency to assume we are smarter than ancient peoples as "Chronological Snobbery". I'm not opposed to the idea they could navigate. I just didn't see how this discovery proves it as the video claims.
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