Black Sea’s dead zone…

The dead zone in the Black Sea is an area at the bottom which is devoid of light and oxygen,  which generally preserves whatever happens to land there.   The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project has been scouring the bottom and has located a batch of more than 40  ancient shipwrecks  from the Ottoman and Byzantine periods.

The photos are fascinating,  and we will undoubtedly learn a great deal,  both culturally and archaeologically,  from the discovery.   When I was a child,  I thought being an archaeologist would be the neatest job in the world.   I’m not sure I was wrong about that.

Old wreck unearthed…

U.S. Army engineers repairing a jetty in New Jersey damaged by Hurricane Sandy has discovered the remains of a  wooden schooner  barge which sank in 1926.   Barges had numbers,  not names,  but the coal carrier  appears to be one of three lost on the same February day.

A layer of rocks has been placed over the exposed side to rebury the wreck, which is one of more than seven thousand wrecks along the coast of New Jersey.

 

 

NJ shipwreck…

Construction on a sea wall  has unearthed  a shipwreck.   It has not yet been identified,  but could be one of about a dozen ships which plied the coastal area.