Uluburun shipwreck discovery

[Imperial Dave]

https://arkeonews.net/new-findings-from-3000-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-uzbekistan-nomads-supplied-a-third-of-the-bronze-used-across-ancient-mediterranean/

Interesting proposal

[DBS]

Very interesting, though I do wish these press releases would stop saying that archaeologists are "amazed"; very long range trade in the period has been established for a long time - cf lapis lazuli - and the real difference here is the proof of sizeable tin exports from a specific region in central Asia.

[Imperial Dave]

Well I am amazed that they keep saying amazed!

[Jim Webster]

I had problems with the writing when I discovered that "The ship was scuttled in a storm"

I had a mental picture of the pirates from Asterix the Gaul smashing a hole in their own hull 'as it all comes to the same thing in the end'

[Imperial Dave]

Or removing the bath plug

[Nick Harbud]

A more appropriate description of its final moments might be "...taken into Poseidon's embrace."

[Jim Webster]

A more appropriate description of its final moments might be "...taken into Poseidon's embrace."

To be fair, it's as accurate as the other