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(ANSA) – JERUSALEM, JUNE 21 – 90 kilometers from the northern coast of Israel, a 3,300 yr previous ship was discovered at a depth of 1,800 meters with all its cargo of amphorae intact. The invention occurred by likelihood, when a submersible robotic from the oil exploration firm Energean trying to find potential new sources off the coast of Israel noticed a mass of vessels and a 12-14 meter lengthy wreck. The invention of the ship, which sank throughout a storm or a pirate assault, was introduced by specialists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) to the BBC, explaining that it’s in all probability the oldest wreck ever discovered within the deep waters of Mediterranean and is a treasured testimony to the maritime abilities of males who lived greater than a thousand years earlier than Christ. “This discovery is essential for analysis – defined Jacob Sharvit, head of the IAA maritime unit – The ship is at such a depth that point has frozen because the second of the catastrophe: the wreck and its cargo weren’t disturbed by human arms, nor influenced by waves and currents, which as an alternative affect the wrecks in shallower waters”. Solely two different cargo shipwrecks are recognized from the Late Bronze Age within the Mediterranean, however each have been discovered comparatively near shore. This newest discovery, due to this fact, reveals that commerce then befell not solely by crusing from one port to a different, but additionally within the open sea, with out seeing the land. “The invention – underlined Sharvit – demonstrates that our ancestors have been in a position to cross the Mediterranean. From the purpose of the sinking, solely the horizon is seen throughout; to orient themselves they in all probability used celestial our bodies, detecting the sighting and the ‘angle of the solar and the place of the celebrities’. (HANDLE).
2024-06-22 03:39:47