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World's Oldest Ship Found in Egyptian Desert

eurekalert.org — The oldest remains of seafaring ships in the world have been found in caves at the edge of the Egyptian desert along with cargo boxes that suggest ancient Egyptians sailed nearly 1,000 miles on rough waters to get treasures from a place they called God's Land, or Punt.

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  • Chapter80, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26By early Egyptians rule, the boaters got three tries to advance closer to God's Land - and they had to advance at least the distance of the number of fingers they had, times the distance of a standard pace. If they failed after 3 tries, then Punt was one option, Field Goal was the other.
  • tarsier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Here's another link with some pics: http://www.livescience.com/history/060306_desert_ships.html
  • MicHalpin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I think that noah's ark is the oldest ship and it was found almost ten years ago check it out it has visitors center
    http://www.wyattmuseum.com/noahs-ark-07.htm
  • wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7something suspicious about this story, how come no photo to back up or video. tough to digg, not quite believable to me.
  • MicHalpin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7so did Indian Jones and everyone loves him...
  • crazyfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ron Wyatt was a crackpot, he said he found mostly every looked after item from the ark of the covenant to mount sinai
  • ollywompus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a bit more reputable link:

    http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=1067

    As for the claim to be the oldest, I could swear I read somewhere that there are records in China dating back to 2500 B.C. or so talking about sea voyages... although they don't have the ships to prove it, the records themselves should hold some weight...

    -olly
  • jjustice, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11It's unfortunate how often important historic locations happen to have names that uneducated people like me find hilarious...like Punt... :-)
  • gage006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It'd be much better with some pictures...
  • Punkymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I posted this a week ago and only got 22 diggs.
    http://digg.com/science/Archaeology_Team_Discovers_Oldest_Remains_of_Sea-faring_Ships_in_the_World
  • nhansen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1uh...Sahara was about a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" that was lost in the deserts of West Africa. It was not a movie about the oldest boat in the world. Oh, and the last time I checked, Egypt was not in West Africa. Yikes.
  • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4My sarcasm-o-meter is a little off but I'm going to assume it has a high reading for your message.
  • MonkeyLord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LMAO... There is a word in German that I can neither pronounce or spell. The word basically means better than awesome. You my man are that word. :-)
  • skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The secret lies with Charlotte
  • Diggg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It says at the end of the article that one can email for the photos. Anyone willing to get the photos and host them?
  • MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3:( where are the picterinos??
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3email this guy for pics, apparently: jelish@mailer.fsu.edu
  • billflu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Anyone ever see the movie Sahara?
  • Punkymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://digg.com/science/Archaeology_Team_Discovers_Oldest_Remains_of_Sea-faring_Ships_in_the_World
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The oldest ship in the world was found and they couldn't get pictures for the article. Sad.
  • wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Now we are talking!
  • piesforyou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"email this guy for pics, apparently: jelish@mailer.fsu.edu"

    rofl, that guy is going to love you!
  • MicHalpin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2whoa...calm down im just kidding I just like the fact that noah's ark has its own visitors center.
  • Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I can't wait for some kind of Discovery / National Geographic Channel special on this, it'd be sweet to see some videos of this place.
  • Incense, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i thought I read something about this a couple years ago. Maybe not. +DUGG
  • SUPERTOY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wasn't this in that movie"SAHARA" with Matthew McCougnahay.
  • everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lemme guess, not the arch :P
  • digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2nice one chapter =)
  • wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3smells like spam to me
  • Jackel003, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2interesting
  • msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Punt was one, grunt was another, and indecipherable gibberish was the last resort.
  • crazyfan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1One Mr. Wyatt is trying to tell the viewer something a fictional story but telling them its completly true, so he is a fraud and a lier and wasted his entire life on decieving the public, therefore he is deemed a crackpot.

    The other is a fictional character, get it FICTIONAL, meaning made up for entertainment sake, so the public knows what they are seeing is about made up people with made up situations.

    Big diff
  • Parthymon, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0DUH! Everyone knows where they went, and it was called Atlantis. The continent of Atlantis, as Donovan tells us, was very close to the african continent ;)

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