Found the wreck of a ship that sank 700 years ago
Workers working on building a number of offices in an Estonian street, specifically in the city of Tallinn, found an ancient discovery dating back hundreds of years. Ship lost 700 years ago.
Among the most prominent of what was known about the ship, after examining its wreck, was that it was a Hanzi gear, which was one of the properties of the Hanseatic League at the time, which formed a trade alliance between several European countries in the past, and also monopolized maritime trade in both the North and Baltic seas.
He also knew that the Hanseatic ship was one of their best because it had a large cargo area and a flat bottom useful in reaching the shallow waters, and the ship is expected to have sunk near the mouth of the Hargabya River.
In more details about it, the experts believed that the ship dates back to 1298, and was built of huge oak logs with the use of animal hair and tar, reaching a length of 24 meters. In it, remains of leather shoes, tools and materials made of wool dating back to the Middle Ages were found. They are still able to discover more about this ship.
It is noteworthy that this ship was not the first whose ruins were found, in 2008 another historical wreck was found 50 meters from where it is now, this made it expected to find something new somewhere near the first site.
Confirming this, the archaeologist, Michael Tammet, who supervised the discovery of the ship, said: “800 years ago we had about two meters of water in this place, there were probably shallow sand mounds under the water, which are difficult to map because they have changed formed as a result of glacial erosion and storms.
The archaeologist Ragnar Nork of the Tallinn city government also revealed that it is not possible to transport the ship as it is due to its large size and the surrounding construction conditions. to a place near the island of Naysar.
There is an expectation that the ship's transfer will delay office construction by two months.
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