We Need To Look Underwater To Understand Our Past – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is so important to understanding our history. Silver coins from the Rooswijk. […]
2,000-year-Old Uluburun Shipwreck Reveal Complex Trade Network
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 2,000 years before the тιтanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since its discovery in 1982, scientists have been studying the contents of the Uluburun shipwreck to […]
Batavia Shipwreck Reveals Secrets Of 17th-Century Dutch Seafaring Domination
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many Dutch ships pᴀssed the West Australian coast while enroute to Southeast Asia in the 1600s—and the national heritage listed shipwreck, Batavia, has revealed through its timbers the history of the shipbuilding materials that enabled Dutch East India Company (VOC) to flourish against major European rivals for the first time. The […]