Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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Page 126
... submarine excavations . The holes that have been dug up to now on the sites of Greek and Roman wrecks are technically errors made by pioneers . The time has come when we should begin to learn from these mistakes . So far no ancient ship ...
... submarine excavations . The holes that have been dug up to now on the sites of Greek and Roman wrecks are technically errors made by pioneers . The time has come when we should begin to learn from these mistakes . So far no ancient ship ...
Page 122
... submarine survey differ so much from archaeological requirements that standard techniques are almost useless for finding ancient wrecks . Oceanographers have means of taking samples of the bottom or of locating submarine mountains and ...
... submarine survey differ so much from archaeological requirements that standard techniques are almost useless for finding ancient wrecks . Oceanographers have means of taking samples of the bottom or of locating submarine mountains and ...
Page 177
... submarine gravity will dictate another displacement : heavy objects slip forwards and lighter ones fly upwards or off . Another jolt unsettles the cargo when the ship touches the bottom . When she lists , according to the slope of the ...
... submarine gravity will dictate another displacement : heavy objects slip forwards and lighter ones fly upwards or off . Another jolt unsettles the cargo when the ship touches the bottom . When she lists , according to the slope of the ...
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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