Sentences with phrase «finding ancient wrecks»
To maximize the chances of finding ancient wrecks, the team will hunt on open, flat areas in the lowest reaches of the sea, up to 6,000 metres deep.
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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).
Although researchers have studied scores of Roman ships, finding a much older Minoan wreck «would add 100 % new knowledge», says Shelley Wachsmann, an expert in ancient seafaring at Texas A&M University in College Station.
In three seasons, he didn't find a single ancient wreck from any period, and only a scattering of artefacts.
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is a vast array of sculptures posing as ancient artefacts newly found from the ocean floor.