1,500 year old Byzantine port discovered!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060723/...byzantine_port

Archaeologists call it the "Port of Theodosius," after the emperor of Rome and Byzantium who died in A.D. 395. They expect to gain insights into ancient commercial life in the city, once called Constantinople, that was the capital of the eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

Most of the tens of thousands of pieces likely to be uncovered will be cataloged and then reburied where they were found, said Metin Gokay, a scientist at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Only a small percentage will qualify as museum-quality pieces, while others will be used for research.

Modern-day Turkish coins will be left with the reburied items as markers to show the area has been disturbed, just in case archaeologists many centuries later dig the site up again, Gokay said.

[Kscott]

I find the planting coins for future diggers rather intresting. Its almost like they predict a nuclear fallout...

[carl-the-conqueror]

they probablyy left the coins because they were landering it,

the turkish tax man comes up, they just say " its for historical purposes"

and if an axe murderer was there itd be

" i didnt want to disturb the site "