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In the depths of the Black Sea, where eternal darkness reigns and where because hydrogen sulfide is practically absent oxygen, always hiding many mysteries.
Many world scientists have repeatedly talked about the local called the “dead zone” where dozens of ancient ships. An international team of archaeologists recently decided to check this hypothesis and made an expedition to the Black Sea. During that expedition members of the Maritime Archaeology Project indeed found at the bottom of a whole cemetery of ancient ships.
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According to experts, the number of wrecks is over forty. Most of them are vessels Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, whose skeletons are perfectly preserved due to lack of oxygen at a depth of over one hundred and fifty meters.
In order to make this amazing find, archaeologists used two advanced swimming machines with remote management. Underwater devices for scanning and surveying the bottom was submerged to a depth of about eighteen hundred meters. One of unmanned submarines took high-quality pictures, the other carried laser scanners, searchlights and other equipment, as well as collected data on the terrain and took samples of bottom mountain rocks.
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According to Professor John Adams, who authored this research, the main objective of the Maritime Archeology project Project “are a thorough study of the bottom of the Black Sea, the presence of all sunken ships here and, as a result, disclosure of new details of the long history of Pontus Euxinus.
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Researchers managed to get details of the lining of old ships and photograph the skeletons of ships of the late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Scientists say that their searches were successful thanks to a map of ancient routes connecting in due time Byzantium with other states.
Experts do not deny that their main discoveries are yet to come …
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