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🚨Breaking news for martime archeology with the biggest medieval cargo ship ever found! S⛵️ Archeologists are impressed by how well preserved this cod is, after 600 years at the bottom of the sea 🌊 This cod -called Svælget 2- is such a unique opportunity to gain precious insight in the culture, society and trade of northern populations in the Middle Ages. The ship (that dates back to the 15th century, as its wood comes from an oak that was cut down around 1410) confirms how developed trading ec

Did archeologists just find Cleopatra’s boat? 🛶 👸🏻 It’s incredible how the waters of Alexandria were able to perfectly preserve this ancient boat for thousands of years! 🌊 We knew from depictions and descriptions of ancient historians that these boats existed and that their purpose was leisure, but we never found one in the flesh! They were commonly used by the elite in Ancient Egypt and in the Ancient Mediterranean- Cleopatra for example had a whole fleet of them! 🤔 Wethers this was one ac