Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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... archaeologists , for excavation entails destruction , and antiquities may be unique . When , for in- stance , an ancient ship is to be reconstructed from its broken and buried remains it can be done only by recording each consecutive ...
... archaeologists , for excavation entails destruction , and antiquities may be unique . When , for in- stance , an ancient ship is to be reconstructed from its broken and buried remains it can be done only by recording each consecutive ...
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... archaeologists would be able to deduce from ancient anchors , found on a wreck , something of the structure , size and date of the ship that lies below the sand . Dr Moll was unfortunate , for he published his History of the Anchor1 in ...
... archaeologists would be able to deduce from ancient anchors , found on a wreck , something of the structure , size and date of the ship that lies below the sand . Dr Moll was unfortunate , for he published his History of the Anchor1 in ...
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... archaeologists themselves will have to devise methods of discovering the ancient level . Drilling , for instance , could produce a core sample through rock and sand . Harbours are difficult to sound or excavate , because so far no ...
... archaeologists themselves will have to devise methods of discovering the ancient level . Drilling , for instance , could produce a core sample through rock and sand . Harbours are difficult to sound or excavate , because so far no ...
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Henri Broussard | 6 |
Boat hanging from trees Crete | 10 |
eroded figures from same wreck | 19 |
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40 metres Afyon amphorae anchorage ancient wrecks Anthéor Anticythera aqualung archaeological archaeologists Barnier Beirut boat Bodrum bottle bottom Bronze Age buried Byblos Byzantine Cannes cargo castle centimetres closed ports coast concretions Congloué Cousteau Crete depth diving draughtsman drawings Dumas excavation fish Frédéric Dumas free-divers Greek Halicarnassos harbour harbour-works hole hull island Izmir Karabağla keel Kemal Knossos land later layer lead stocks Lebanon look Mahdia Mallia marine masonry Mediterranean metal method metres Minoan Mochlos mole Motya Museum Mustafa Nemi Nemi ships never objects Phoenician photographs planks Plate Poidebard quays recording reef remains ribs rock rock-cut Roman rope round salvage sand sea-bed seaward seen shallow water sherds ship side Sidon silt slope sponge sponge divers stone anchors structure submarine submerged surface survey swim Tabarja tanks thing tiles tion tombs took town trench tumulus Turkish Tyre underwater walls wood wooden wreck-formations