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Updated: 7:21 PM Jan 24, 2007
A&M Researchers Part Of Effort To Study Ancient Cargo Boat
Texas A&M Researchers are part of an effort to study a 1,300-year-old cargo boat that could help scholars understand how the arrival of the Arabs changed life and trading in the Holy Land.
Posted: 7:35 PM Jan 24, 2007 |
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(January 24, 2007)--A cargo boat that sailed the coast of the Holy Land 1,300 years ago is helping researchers better understand the region's history.
The boat was discovered in a coastal lagoon near the northern city of Haifa.
Experts say the boat dates from the early eighth century, not long after the rise of Islam and the Arab conquest of the Middle East.
Archaeologists this week report the boat could help scholars understand how the arrival of Arabs changed life and trading in the Holy Land.
The 45-foot-long craft was discovered ten years ago in a lagoon by researchers from Haifa University's Institute for Maritime Studies and Texas A&M.
Serious investigation of the craft began last year.
Much of the still-submerged ship is uniquely intact, with the stump of a mast visible.
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