World’s Oldest Champagne Found In The Baltic Sea
Divers investigating a 200 year-old shipwreck in the Baltic Sea found what is thought to be the world’s oldest champagne. And it’s sill drinkable! From New Tang Dynasty Television: The post World’s...
View ArticleMore Strange Objects Unearthed From Famed Roman Shipwreck
Via USA TODAY, the ancient underwater wreckage which housed a 2,000-year-old quasi-computer that cannot be explained likely contains more devices: Marine archaeologists report they have uncovered new...
View ArticleMythic Viking Navigation Crystal May Have Been Found In Shipwreck
The first ever found remnant of a sunstone, a crystal which legend says was behind the Vikings’ incredible feats of oceanic navigation? Via CBS News: A rough, whitish block recovered from an...
View Article‘Byzantine iPad’ Found in Ancient Shipwreck
Istanbul University department of marine archeology and the Yenikapi Shipwrecks Project (C) Shipwreck? There’s an app for that. No Angry Birds, though. Angry Fish, maybe. Angry Captain, definitely....
View ArticleFOUND: 300-year-old Pyx
Another interesting discovery this week. An example of a pyx. © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons. via Reuters: A Florida family scavenging for sunken treasure on a shipwreck has found the missing...
View ArticleHere’s How the Crew of the 1813 Shipwreck in Alaska Survived
“Russian Sloop-of-War Neva” by Drawn by Capt Lisiansky, engraved by I. Clark. (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons) National Science Foundation via EurekAlert: Working closely with the U.S. Forest Service...
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