The Mary Rose

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The Mary Rose

• 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.

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. 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.
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The Mary Rose

• The Mary Rose was the pride of Henry VIIIs 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.

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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
  its interior

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Salvaging

• 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.

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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.

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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.
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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

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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

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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.

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End of Theos project

• And the start of Diegos project on Nineveh

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Nineveh

• Time line of Nineveh
• What is nineveh?
• Why is it a good and famous archeological place?
• Archeological things about it.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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