Laser Scans Reveal 23 Hidden Ship Carvings on Bronze Age Temple Wall in Cyprus
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Twenty-three “hidden” ships, carved some 3,000 years ago into the walls of an ancient temple beneath present-day Larnaca, have been revealed by modern technology. High-resolution laser scans of ancient Kition have brought to light previously unknown ship carvings, more than doubling the number recorded in the 1980s. Most importantly, however, the new research shows that the ships were not all carved at the same time: they appear to have been add…
Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 engravings of ships at the site of Kition Kathari, in Larnaca Bay, south of Cyprus. Since then, these images have been cited as classic examples of the naval iconography of the Eastern Mediterranean during the [...]
Hidden fleet in stone: High-resolution 3D scans have made 23 additional possible ship representations visible at the temple complex Kition Kathari in Cyprus. The new evaluation changes their dating at the same time: The Ritz images were therefore not created in a single phase, but supplemented from the end of the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Vancouver (Canada). At first sight [...] The article Laserscans reveal hidden ship images in Cyprus'…
A high-resolution laser scan carried out in a 3,000-year-old temple in Cyprus revealed 23 engravings of previously unknown ships, more than twice the number recorded since the decade...
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