The vessel was found far from land, challenging previous assumptions about the seafaring capabilities of its Bronze Age builders.
A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of Israel has stumbled upon a 3,300-year-old ship on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, its cargo still intact. The wreck was found about 56 miles from the coast, a surprising distance from land for such an ancient vessel. The approximately 40-foot ship was found at a depth of 5,900 feet about a year ago, surrounded by hundreds of jars.
But it’s interesting to put this impressive seafaring into perspective; after all, Polynesian seafarers colonized the islands of the south and western Pacific Ocean over the last 25,000 years, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. But both groups were almost certainly using the positions of objects in the sky—the Sun and stars—to navigate without sight of land. The jars recovered from the wreck were identified as Canaanite, a group of ancient people who lived in the Levant.
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