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An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. ... The discovery could open a completely new understanding of both the region ...
Researchers went underwater to investigate seven archaeological sites in the Adriatic Sea in the lagoons off the island of Grado in Italy. The finds ranged from shipwrecks to unidentified ...
The Underwater Archaeology Service team gets credit with the discovery, but preserving the find and bringing it back to the surface came thanks to the Italian Cultural Property Restoration team ...
The discovery was made by a Czech archaeological mission from the Charles University in May earlier that year. [107] December. 12 – Cambridge University-led archaeology experts announced the discovery of remains of a roofed theatre, market and river port at Interamna Lirenas, Italy. [108]
The discovery of a 10th century burial ground was announced by the archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the eastern bank of the Oka river, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia. 8 of the burials contained the remains of four children, two women, and two men. The men's burials were adorned with an ...
There are many reasons why underwater archaeology can make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the past. In the shipwreck field alone, individual shipwrecks can be of significant historical importance either because of the magnitude of loss of life (such as the Titanic) or circumstances of loss (Housatonic was the first vessel in history sunk by an enemy submarine).
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...
Further discoveries were made at BC 2 and BC 4, and a later a new site was discovered nearby (BC 5). [6] The dangerous diving conditions in the fast flowing waters of the Solent make archaeological investigation particularly difficult and archaeologists have used several new techniques to make analysis of the sea bed easier.