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Maritime Archaeology and Shipwreck Discovery
How maritime archaeology finds, records and interprets submerged sites, from sonar survey and careful excavation to conservation and the law that protects wrecks.
Seafaring Life and Navigation
Ship Archaeology and Preservation
Finding, studying and keeping historic vessels.
HMS Victory and the Care of Old Warships
How HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, went from harbour service to Portsmouth dry dock in 1922, and what keeping an old wooden warship involves.
Maritime Museums and Their Collections
How maritime museums collect, conserve, display and interpret ships, models, instruments and seafaring objects, and the choices that shape what visitors see.
Preserving the Cutty Sark
The history of the Cutty Sark, built in 1869 and the last surviving tea clipper, from the wool trade to Greenwich dry dock, the 2007 fire and the 2012 reopening.
Replica Ships and Experimental Archaeology
What building and sailing replicas such as Olympias, Kyrenia II and the Sea Stallion from Glendalough has shown about old ships, and where the method falls short.
The Khufu Ship at Giza
The cedar boat found sealed in a pit beside the Great Pyramid in 1954: how it was built, reassembled and displayed, and what historians debate about its purpose.
The Kyrenia Ship
A Greek merchant ship from the late fourth century BC, found off Cyprus in 1965, excavated in the late 1960s and later rebuilt as the sailing replica Kyrenia II.
The Oseberg and Gokstad Ship Burials
Two Viking Age ships preserved in burial mounds in Vestfold, Norway: how they were found, what they contained, and what they reveal about ship design and status.
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
The early seventh-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk: its 1939 excavation, the ghost of the ship's hull, the treasures and the debate over who lay there.
The Uluburun Shipwreck
A Late Bronze Age cargo ship wrecked off southern Turkey around 1300 BC, carrying copper, tin, glass, ivory and more, and what its excavation revealed about early trade.
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