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Phoenician Wreck

Best way to learn more is by using search-term “Ashkelon Excavations” because it will bring information about economics, archaeology and more.  Look for a photomosaic, thanks to Hanumant Singh, of one of the two shipwreck sites.  Sarah Webster gave me the sediment sample.

I did not know Sarah, then a WHOI engineer, until she called me one day saying she had this mud, was leaving town and did I want it?  Since I did, she left it at my door and it was several years later when we met for the first time.  This email exchange came first:

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