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M University who led the Uluburun excavation, says that such ambitious seafaring wouldn't have been feasible.
Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010
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He also claims to have DNA proof that the Minoans carried a rare gene found today among Native Americans around Lake Superior and scientific tests matching the region's "uniquely pure" copper to the Uluburun ingots.
Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010
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Although the vessels were sturdy, they didn't have decks to endure storms and rough seas, he explains, adding that the Uluburun copper came from Cyprus.
Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010
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Undeterred, Mr. Menzies counters that the Minoan ships were three times the size of Columbus's, that ancient artifacts found at Lake Superior match those from the Uluburun wreck, and that indigenous Americans had no knowledge of mining or smelting copper artifacts.
Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010
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Vessels depicted in Minoan frescoes and the remains of one of them -- the Uluburun wreck found on the Mediterranean seabed in 1982 with a cargo of copper ingots and artifacts from seven different civilizations -- have convinced him that their ships were advanced enough for ocean travel.
Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010
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The catalogue provides an especially worthwhile chapter on the Uluburun shipwreck, written by its excavator Cemal Pulak.
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Within are videos and images of the underwater dig from the site (Uluburun in Turkish).
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In one scene, a diver comes up to the surface clutching a gold cup on display in the Uluburun gallery.
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It is meant to represent the famous Uluburun shipwreck, excavated off the southern coast of Turkey in the 1980s.
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The issue is one where the flash of gold and silver obscure or overwhelm the type of careful work that yields treasures of a different sort, like that of the Uluburun shipwreck or the Somers.
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