Arqueología. Israel

Lo pone de manifiesto la  publiée dans la dernière livraison de l’International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, revista científica que se ha sumergido en las aguas del Lago de Tiberiades.


Un extraño disco oscuro de 50 mts. de diámetro en el lago . Los submarinistas han fotografiado un apilamiento de rocas basálticas así:





Las rocas basálticas han tenido que ser transportadas al lugar pues en tal sitio no existen. Un total de 60.000 toneladas de rocas .
Por el momento las investigaciones han cesado y , a la espera de que se reanuden, hay mientras varias hipótesis sobre esta construcción .

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A Submerged Monumental Structure in the Sea of Galilee, Israel

1. Yitzhak Paz¹, 
2. Moshe Reshef², 
3. Zvi Ben-Avraham², 
4. Shmuel Marco², 
5. Gideon Tibor³,
6. Dani Nadel⁴

Article first published online: 4 FEB 2013

DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12005

© 2013 The Authors. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology © 2013 The Nautical Archaeology Society

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International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

Volume 42, Issue 1, pages 189–193, March 2013

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Archaeologists Stumped by Sea of Galilee Mystery

NEXT STEP: RAISE MONEY TO FUND EXCAVATION

By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff

NEWSER) – What Israeli archaeologists know: A bigger-than-Stonehenge structuresubmerged in the Sea of Galilee is man-made, made of stones that originated nearby, and weighs about 60,000 tons. What they don't know: Pretty much everything else. TheAP revisits the mystery of the cone-shaped structure, which was revealed in an articlepublished earlier this year. A routine sonar scan first pointed to its existence in 2003; now, archaeologists are trying to raise money to fund an underwater expedition, which the AP describes as a "painstakingly slow process" that could have a price tag into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The planned excavation would be the first in the Sea of Galilee, the archaeologists believe, and it would take them about 1,600 feet off the sea's southwestern shore. The formation lies between nine and 40 feet below the surface, its base covered in sediment. But money isn't the only hurdle: The sea has low visibility, and digging could stir up sediment, burying uncovered portions. But the lingering questions are too tempting for the archaeologists to ignore: Was it built on land or underwater? Was it a burial site—or a fish nursery? Was it built 2,000 years ago—or 12,000? Click for more.