Some 15 metres below the earth's surface, archaeologists in Cairo made a startling 4000-year-old discovery.9News
, which was involved in the subsequent dig, said more than 100 timbers from the ship's hull were recovered, with analysis dating the wood to between 1558 and 1580, and were made of English oak.Although found 300 metres inland, experts believe the site would have once been on the coast, and that the ship was either wrecked or was discarded at the end of its useful life.
"The great thing is that, like your house cat which was about the same size, microraptor would have been an easy animal to live with but a terror if it got out as it would hunt everything from the birds at your feeder to the mice in your hedge or the fish in your pond," Alex Dececchi of Mount Marty College, another co-author of the study, said in a news release.
The lake is a source of drinking water for about 100,000 people in Norway, according to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, so the munitions posed health risks. The shipwreck was spotted during the survey of the lake.A 1300-year-old gold and gemstone necklace found on the site of a new housing development marks the grave of a powerful woman who may have been an early Christian religious leader in Britain, archaeologists say.
Earlier high-status burials were mostly men, and experts say the change could reflect women gaining power and status in England's new Christian faith. Experts say it's one of the most significant Saxon finds since the 7th-century ship burial found in the 1930s at Sutton Hoo, about 160 kilometres to the east.
The inscription encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice. The sentence contains 17 letters that read: "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard." Äpplet was one of four warships created on the order of King Gustavus Adolphus in 1625, along with the Vasa, which famously capsized on its maiden voyage.
Patrik Höglund, a maritime archaeologist at Vrak, told CNN that the discovery was "amazing" because they thought "nothing was left of wrecks in the area."In a statement, Jim Hansson, a maritime archaeologist at Vrak who also worked on the discovery, said the team's "pulses spiked" at the similarities between the wreck's dimensions and construction and those of Vasa.
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