Wooden Anchor Could Be Oldest Found


	Wooden Anchor Could Be Oldest Found

invictus

5-17-2007 6:46 PM

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archaeology, turkey, izmir

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5-18-2007 3:23 AM

debbyski

WOW

5-19-2007 10:39 AM

Socratoad

WOW indeed. What a find!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da1749f4-80d5-4d5b-bb50-9825fffafda7/1193FA48-CA39-422B-83D0-94366A20B477/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/17/anchor_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070517141500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0002" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/17/anchor_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070517141500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0002" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/17/anchor_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070517141500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0002">The world's oldest wooden anchor lies at the bottom of an ancient harbor in Turkey off the Aegean Sea, according to a team of Israeli and Turkish archaeologists.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/17/anchor_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070517141500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0002"><P>Dating to the end of the 7th century B.C., the anchor was found in the Turkish port city of Urla, where the ancient site of Liman Tepe is located.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/17/anchor_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070517141500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0002"><P>The anchor was recovered wedged into the ground about 5 feet below the surface.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/17/anchor_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070517141500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0002"><P>"It is still there, we have not removed it from its position. It was covered with 7th century B.C. ceramics. The anchor is preserved in the ceramic layer, clearly dating from the same period," study leader Michal Artzy, of the University of Haifa's Institute for Maritime Studies in Israel, told Discovery News.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1193FA48-CA39-422B-83D0-94366A20B477/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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