Browsing by Subject "Shipwrecks"
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(2015-04-27)The Rio Grande do Sul coast, in southern Brazil, is an extensive and scarcely populated sandy shore, nearly 620km long, home of stranded ships representing various periods of navigation in the southwestern Atlantic. ...
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(2022-04-22)If modern shipbuilding calls for engineers, computer software for 3D models and calculations, it represents a recent take on what is needed for ship construction. Until the 19th-century, ship construction in Europe was ...
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(2021-05-05)The Mediterranean World is no stranger to naval conflict. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Rameses III fought the “Sea Peoples” as they attacked his kingdom and others in the Eastern Mediterranean ca. 1175 B.C.E. Galleys with ...
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(2021-05-05)Out of 155 known shipwrecks around the world dating from 1600 to 1700, more than a third have been confirmed to be Iberian. Among Iberian wrecks, 37 have been destroyed, looted, or salvaged by treasure hunters and only 11 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)For many years treasure hunters have considered the Caribbean region a prime target for their ventures. While some have chosen to seek contracts with island governments, others have chosen clandestine operations. Regardless ...
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(2021-07-29)Nautical archaeologists over many decades have uncovered a plethora of Mediterranean shipwrecks from different periods. Debates about how shipbuilders organized, designed, and constructed ships developed alongside the ...
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(2011-10-21)Lead is often relegated to a footnote or sidebar in the study of ancient metals. However, the hundreds of lead ingots discovered in underwater sites over the past half-century have attested to the widespread production and ...