Delicate operation carried out on explosives-packed WWII shipwreck
Engineers sprang into action amid concern that an 82-year-old WWII shipwreck's crumbling masts could topple and set off its 1,500-ton sunken explosives payload.
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Engineers sprang into action amid concern that an 82-year-old WWII shipwreck's crumbling masts could topple and set off its 1,500-ton sunken explosives payload.
This week on Culture Bites , Enas Refaei and Farah Andrews ponder the connections that civilisations built through travel almost 5,000 years ago. They share the story of a shipwreck that was discovered off Turkey's Mediterranean coast, believed to date back to the early Bronze Age . Archaeologists were able to unlock some of the vessel’s history based on pot
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