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A ship off Israel's coast could shed light on the navigation of ancient mariners
- wglb 2y agoA related NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/science/shipwreck-bronze-age-israel.html?searchResultPosition=7 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/science/shipwreck-bronze-...
- wslh 2y agohttps://archive.is/2024.06.21-012520/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/science/shipwreck-bronze-age-israel.html https://archive.is/2024.06.21-012520/https://www.nytimes.com...
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- klyrs 2y agoThey say this is evidence that they were capable of sailing out of sight of land... but is it?
- the_third_wave 2y agoIt seems just as likely to me that this ship was blown out of reach of the coast by a storm upon which it sank in deep water. If more ships from the same era are found in deep water between known ports that might be evidence of astronomical navigation but a single ship does not convince me in that respect.
- pliftkl 2y agoThis was my reaction as well - every article I've read seems to call out "changes the way we think they navigated because out of sight of land", but this may be a perverse form of survivor bias (ships tried this and sank), or as you point out, it could have been blown off course where it then sank.
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