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...ship is about 65 ft. long, rigged for a single square sail. Thus far only some of the hull's planking and part of the vessel's keel, made of fir, have been unearthed from the sediment. Apparently, the ship foundered on the coast's treacherous rocks and went straight down, without splintering, thus retaining much of its cargo. Bass and his fellow archaeologists were able to date the ship from at least two clues: a delicate double-handled Greek cup, similar to those made between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and the copper ingots, with their characteristic...
...their rarity but for what they will reveal about the seagoing life of the Mediterranean 34 centuries ago. Before the advent of marine archaeology, notes Bass, "we knew more about the safety pins and sewers of Athens than we did about the ships that made Athens great." The hull of this wreck, for example, tells much about shipbuilding techniques. Apparently the vessel was constructed by building the outer shell first, then adding ribs for reinforcement, the same method utilized 1,000 years later. Bass surmises that the wreck will disclose a great deal about the ships used in the Trojan...
...bounty from what Dickens called the "awful, solemn, impenetrable blue" will bring light to an area of archaeology that has long been obscure. The age of the previous oldest hull was a thousand years younger than this one, and suggests that nautical technology in ancient times changed glacially. Says Bass: "These bones of the wreck push back our knowledge of Mediterranean shipbuilding by nearly a millennium." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington
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...writing it. "Where next?" we might wonder--despairingly. Shklar doesn't give in so easily. Her book resembles a lesson in avoiding the answer of a Hamlet seeking suicide or a Hitler planning genocide. Weaving between the Scylla of simple answers and the Charibdis of complexity, she steers the hull (some would say the corpse) of liberalism along a cautious straight and narrow...