Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than forty of the most important shipwreck and sunken-city projects ever undertaken. From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the Caribbean to the Red Sea, from northern Europe and the northern United States to the Indian Ocean, archaeologists vividly describe shipwrecks from centuries past, from the oldest and deepest ever excavated to the remains of battles in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. Readers will dive nearly 200 feet with Cemal Pulak on a royal ship that sank over 3,300 years ago off the Aegean coast of Turkey, and explore with Donny Hamilton the streets and houses of the richest English colony in the New World, the infamous pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, swallowed by the sea in 1692. They will accompany famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, as he and Cheryl Ward search for shipwrecks in the deep, oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea. They will wade with archaeologist Fred Hocker through mud along the bank of a South Carolina river, and then sail through a gale with Susan Womer Katzev on a full-scale replica of the best-preserved ancient Greek ship yet raised from the depths of the Mediterranean. The book describes the tragic loss, within sight of their loved ones, of seamen returning home to Portugal in 1606, at the end of a two-year voyage to the East on the Nossa Senhora dos Martires, and then describes the fate of the crew of another Portuguese ship, the Santo Antonio de Tanna, which sank off Mombasa, Kenya, while trying to lift the siege of Fort Jesus by Omani Arabs in 1697. It describes the foods, games, weapons, tools, and grooming implements on a ship sailed by Bulgarian merchants around AD 1025, carrying as cargo the largest known collections of medieval Islamic glass and glazed pottery. 350 color illustrations.

Beneath the Seven Seas

History

George F. Bass

World

Thames&Hudson

Archaeology Beneath the Sea

Politics & Social Sciences

Harriet Maggi

Archaeology

Walker Co

This book is an updated version of Archaeology Beneath the Sea (Walker and Company, 1975), which ended with the experiences of 1973, continuing the story to 2011. With the exception of chapter IX, largely rewritten with the results of half a century of additional research, chapters I through XIV are mostly unchanged, although more profusely illustrated.To ensure accuracy in describing events that occurred years earlier, I have often depended on things I wrote much closer to the time of those events. Large or small parts of some chapters are taken or adapted from earlier publications: chapters II and VII from "A Bronze Age Shipwreck" and "The Museum Assembles a Fleet" in Expedition, the bulletin of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, for Winter 1961 and Winter 1965 respectively, chapters X and XI from "New Tools for Undersea Archaeology" in National Geographic for September 1968, chapter XIV from "Discovery 73" in the AINA Newsletter for Spring 1974, and a passage in chapter VI from National Geographic Society Research Reports, 1964. The quotation from Archaeology Under Water in chapter VIII is reprinted by permission of Thames and Hudson Ltd. Other examples of earlier publication of all or parts of chapters are chapter XV from "Summer 74" in AINA Newsletter for Fall 1974, chapter XVI from "Devil Creek" in the Fall 1975 AINA Newsletter, chapter XVII from "Glass Treasure From the Aegean" in National Geographic for June 1978 and "Serce Liman" in the Summer-Fall 1978 AINA Newsletter, chapter XVIII from "La Media Luna," written with Donald H Keith for the Summer 1979 INA Newsletter, chapter XXI from "Oldest Known Shipwreck Reveals Splendors of the Bronze Age" in National Geographic for December 1987, chapter XXIV from "Return to Cape Celidonya" in the June 1988 INA Newsletter, chapter XXV from "Golden Age Treasures" in National Geographic for March 2002, chapters XXVI and XXVII from "Ribbon Cuttings" and "INA Increases its Fleet," both in the INA Quarterly for Summe

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