1200-Year-Old Wreck Discovered in the Eastern Med

[CDR_Ret]

This news item is being covered on several websites. The UK Daily Mail seems to have one of the more complete write-ups, though it doesn't provide much detail. Several videos on various sites include interviews with the divers.

 

This piece claims that the wreck's contents upend the idea that after the Islamic conquest of the Middle East, basically all trade with Western Europe shut down. Not sure why that was the case. Traders always seem to ignore geopolitical differences. We see that even today.

 

Terry  

[Louie da fly]

Here's some more on this wreck - it seems a little surprising that it's only getting this news attention now - they've been working on the wreck for some years.

 

https://honorfrostfoundation.org/2018/10/03/the-maagan-mikhael-shipwreck/

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1095-9270.12331

 

Steven