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The Mary Rose. Or as www.themaryrose.com says: The Mary Rose is the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII.
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The Mary Rose Or as www.themaryrose.com says: The Mary Roseis the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII. After a long and successful career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology. The Mary rose was once the pride of the British fleet but finished as a object in a museum. But how? Find out in chronological order by clicking now.
The Mary Rose • The Mary Rose was the pride of Henry VIII’s Navy and had for years fought successfully in many battles. Apparently she was sunk by the French but there is other evidence to say that she may have simply been mishandled or overloaded and it was this that led to her being under the sea.
The Salvaging • The salvaging of the Mary Rose was only possible after it was rediscovered on 1971 and the outline of the hull was gradually exposed and surveyed (this took seven years) was it possible to dig a trench allowing archaeologists to have a look at it’s interior
The warship was finally raised on October 11th, 1982 An estimated 60 million television viewers worldwide watched her come to the surface in the first ever live broadcast from underwater. The initial lifting was carried out over a period of eight hours to avoid any suction effect. When the process of gently detaching the hull from the silt was complete, a giant floating crane carefully transferred it underwater into a purpose-built cradle positioned on the seabed nearby. Salvaging
Salvaging • Once secured to the cradle the whole package, weighing 580 tons, was raised and towed ashore. As soon as it broke the surface, the water inside the hull was pumped out to reduce the load on the structure.
Ashore After the ship was raised she was towed into Portsmouth naval base. She was wrapped in protective foam and polythene and constantly sprayed to keep her wet. She had been found a new home in No.3 Drydock, (just behind HMS Victory) and preparatory work began by removing the lifting frame. After that she had to be lifted up and wheeled onto a smaller barge, the one she was on was too large to fit into the dock. She was moved into the dock on December 8th 1982.
Conservation begins • Before they could start conserving the Mary Rose they had to build somewhere for her to live. • Then they kept her wet with a sprinkling system that used recycled cold water every five minutes
Today The ship today is being sprayed by a type of wax which will mean that in twenty years there will be no need what so ever for water any more. The techniques used to conserve the iron cannons were controversial because they were impossible to undo. There were other ways to try and conserve the cannons but none were successful
Conclusion My conclusion is that many people put lots of time and money into what eventually turned out to be the greatest marine excavation of all time and that most of all we must thank those who helped Alex McKee in the early stages of the excavation. • After so many years of being denigrated behind my back as a mad chaser after wild geese, it was with great satisfaction that I saw the message go off. • The words of Alex McKee when the message containing proof of the Mary Rose was sent to Portsmouth.
End of Theo’s project And the start of Diego’s project on Nineveh
Nineveh Time line of Nineveh What is nineveh? Why is it a good and famous archeological place? Archeological things about it.
Time Line of Nineveh • HISTORY6000 BCE: First settlements of Nineveh.2nd and 3rd millennia: Nineveh is a religious centre devoted to among other gods Ishtar.9th century: Large architectural projects start in Nineveh with the initiative of rulers of the Assyrian Empire.705: King Sennacherib establishes Nineveh as the new capital of the Assyrian Empire, at the expense of Dar Sharrukin. Large scale construction work is started, together with the building of the largest palace of its time, which was 42,000 km² large with at least 80 rooms.Around 650: Under king Ashurbanipal, a new palace is constructed, together with a large library.612: The city is captured and destroyed by the Babylonians, Schytians and Medes. This also marks the end of the Assyrian Empire.13th century CE: Nineveh becomes an important city under Atabeg rulers.16the century: The last settlements of Nineveh are abandoned.1820: Nineveh is mapped by the British archaeologist Claudius J. Rich.1845-51: The palace of Sennacherib is discovered.
What is Nineveh? • City of the ancient Assyrian Empire, and its capital from 705 to 612 BC. Nineveh was situated on the east bank of the Tigris near modern Mosul. The Khawsar River ran through Nineveh to join the Tigris. During its relatively short period of being capital, Nineveh was turned into a beautiful city of wide boulevards, large squares, parks, and gardens. At its largest, Nineveh was 700 hectares large, walled with 15 gates. The walls measured 12 km in circumference. Each gate was named after an Assyrian god. Aqueducts and canals lead water from sources in the hills 50 km away. Most of Nineveh's period of existence is mainly prehistoric: a 30 metre long shaft dug in 1931-32 from the top to virgin soil proved that only 20% of the debris belonged to the period of recorded history.
Ancient country in the Middle East, with centre in modern Iraq along the Tigris river. At its height in the 9th century BC, Assyria covered areas of also modern eastern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, western Iran, Kuwait, and Egypt. • SOCIETY AND ECONOMYCentral to the central region of Assyria was farming, fed by both the Tigris river and water from the Armenian mountains in the north and the Zagros mountains the east. With the expansion of Assyria more land with other economies were including, like mining and forestry. It is believed that the civilization of Assyria came from the immigration of an unknown people into the area around 6000 BC. This was followed by Semitic immigration about 3 millenniums later. Life was located to small villages, and there was an intricate system of irrigation that fed the agriculture. There were few larger cities, and these served as trade and craft centres. Assyria had some slaves, but these played only a small part of the economy. The Assyrians were noted for their high knowledge in warfare and organization. • ADMINISTRATIONAssyria had a traditional form of monarchy, where the king answered only to his court. The king's son would normally take over as the new ruler at the old king's death. Local administration was organized around local rulers who paid taxes to the king as well as provide men for the army. As Assyria extended its territories through military campaigns, local rulers were allowed to continue to govern their old regions, as long as they fulfilled their duties to the Assyrian king. Under Sargon 2, Assyria was divided into 70 provinces. • CULTUREAmong the finest cultural achievements of Assyria was literature, which used at first a cuneiform alphabet from the Babylonians written on clay tablets. Later an Aramaic script written on parchment came to dominate. The literature dealt with a number of subjects like legal issues, medicine and history. Assyrian architecture used mud bricks, and occasionally stone. Houses and buildings never exceeded one storey and had flat roofs. While most houses were modest, palaces and temples could cover large areas inside the cities. Sculptures and wall carvings were another central part of Assyrian culture, and showed high skills in the crafts. Document cylinder seals became an art form by itself, as intricate patterns and shapes were given t these.
