Cats and amphoras
Apr. 8th, 2004 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hildy89Oldest pet cat discovered in Cyprus
I watched "Lost Ships of the Mediterranean" on the National Geographic channel last night about two shipwrecks found by the US Navy off the coast from Ashkelon in Israel. The wrecks included hundreds of amphoras strewn in a huge pile across the Mediterranean. The Navy contacted Robert Ballard, the Titanic & Bismarck discoverer, who in turn, brought in archaeologist Lawrence Stager from Harvard. He could pinpoint the amphora shape to the Iron Age, maybe 8th or 9th century BC, but the footage was fuzzy. Then they actually relocated the wrecks and pulled up some of amphoras. Both appear to have been Phoenician wine merchants possibly on the way to Egypt or Carthage. official paper explains some of the background details left off the program, including why an American submarine would be off the coast of Israel. (They were helping Israeli officials search for the lost sub Dakar which they eventually found in 1999.)
I watched "Lost Ships of the Mediterranean" on the National Geographic channel last night about two shipwrecks found by the US Navy off the coast from Ashkelon in Israel. The wrecks included hundreds of amphoras strewn in a huge pile across the Mediterranean. The Navy contacted Robert Ballard, the Titanic & Bismarck discoverer, who in turn, brought in archaeologist Lawrence Stager from Harvard. He could pinpoint the amphora shape to the Iron Age, maybe 8th or 9th century BC, but the footage was fuzzy. Then they actually relocated the wrecks and pulled up some of amphoras. Both appear to have been Phoenician wine merchants possibly on the way to Egypt or Carthage. official paper explains some of the background details left off the program, including why an American submarine would be off the coast of Israel. (They were helping Israeli officials search for the lost sub Dakar which they eventually found in 1999.)
