Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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... Silt and Silting - Changing Sea Levels - Buried Cities - Tyre in History -- - Geological Position - As Seen Today ... silt must enter a harbour ; the latter is the more difficult to deflect , coming as it does from the most unexpected ...
... Silt and Silting - Changing Sea Levels - Buried Cities - Tyre in History -- - Geological Position - As Seen Today ... silt must enter a harbour ; the latter is the more difficult to deflect , coming as it does from the most unexpected ...
Page 68
... silt . Apart from silt , two other factors make harbours difficult to examine . The first is a change of sea - level due to earth movements , and the second , sea erosion . In the latter case , where swell and the greed of lithophagous ...
... silt . Apart from silt , two other factors make harbours difficult to examine . The first is a change of sea - level due to earth movements , and the second , sea erosion . In the latter case , where swell and the greed of lithophagous ...
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... silt - bearing currents . Since he was an archaeologist , he would also survey the ancient harbour - works at Tyre . Their exact position was unknown ; moreover , the secret of their construction had practical importance , since it ...
... silt - bearing currents . Since he was an archaeologist , he would also survey the ancient harbour - works at Tyre . Their exact position was unknown ; moreover , the secret of their construction had practical importance , since it ...
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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