Enlarge (credit: German Archaeological Institute) All that’s left of the ancient boat today is the bitumen, a black tar that once coated its framework of reeds, palm leaves, or wood. That fragile organic material is long gone, leaving behind only ghostly imprints in the bitumen. But there’s enough left for archaeologists to tell that in […]
Enlarge (credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Twenty-four hundred years ago, Heraklion was ancient Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today, the ancient city lies submerged beneath Abu Qir Bay, a few kilometers off the coast of Alexandria. Archaeology recently discovered the wreck of a warship from the city’s final years buried in the […]
These sealed crates can hold anything. (charge: Tomasz Stachura/ / Baltictech/Handout through REUTERS) A World War II shipwreck lately found off the shore of Poland could hold the dismantled portions of the Amber Room, also a Russian treasure looted from the Nazis and dropped since 1945. The mess of the German steamship Karlsruhe is located […]