Sentences with phrase «ancient wreck from»

In three seasons, he didn't find a single ancient wreck from any period, and only a scattering of artefacts.

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In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

Historians once assumed that the number of wrecks in the deep sea was negligible because ancient ships must have hugged the coastlines, but in the 1990s Ballard found eight ancient wrecks far from shore between the islands of Sicily and Sardinia (Foley was Ballard's graduate student at the time).

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is a vast array of sculptures posing as ancient artefacts newly found from the ocean floor.

Nearly 10 years in the making, this new project from the internationally renowned YBA tells the story of the ancient wreck of a vast ship, the Unbelievable (known as Apistos in the original Koine Greek).

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