Originally posted by Jorge
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Pick up a couple issues of any publication dealing with scientific discoveries and you'll find a couple articles describing things that shocked people because they hadn't anticipated it.
I was reading an article a few weeks ago about scientists surveying the coastline of the Black Sea who discovered a bunch of wrecked ships dating from Byzantine to Renaissance times. They were more than a little surprised to find that on several of them the riggings were still intact since rope rots away in salt water in about a century. They figure it must be due to the anoxic nature of the water.
Similarly, last month I read about amateur archaeologists discovering a Bronze Age sword blade in a field in Denmark. The approximately 3000 year old sword was not only completely intact which is surprising enough but to everyone's astonishment it was still sharp.
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