WORLD TRADE CENTRE SECRETS
G'day folks,
You never know what you may find when you start digging. In 2010, during routine work on the site where the World
Trade Center once stood ("Ground Zero"), construction workers
clearing rubble and earth started finding wooden beams - a material not
commonly used in construction of skyscrapers.
As they were clearing the area, they kept finding more
and more of the beams, and realized that professionals should be called in.
Archaeologists started carefully clearing up the area and
made and amazing discovery, they found a ship. An old ship, about 60-70 feet
long (18-21 meters).
Wood samples were collected and sent for testing, and the
results showed that the ship was indeed very old. The timber used for the
construction was from trees, cut at around 1770 in the Philadelphia area,
meaning that the ship was about 240 years old!
Before the remains of the ship were transported for more
research and preservation, the site was scanned and the wood was carefully
catalogued.
It's
currently unclear how this ship ended up 22 feet (6.5 meters) under current street-level.
It's possible that it sank due to an accident or the woodworm infestation.
Alternatively, it might have been deliberately sunk as part of a landfill to
expand the island of Manhattan.
What
do YOU think?
Clancy's comment: Well there ya go. Amazing, eh? This would never have been found had it not been due to the crazy actions of a few. And, when we look back in history, millions of people died because of a few crazy men like Hitler, Pol Pot etc.
I'm ...
Think about this!
R.I.P!
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