Workers Discover 18th-century Vessel While Installing Pipeline In Medieval 'game Of Thrones' City

Workers installing a h2o pipeline successful Croatia made an unexpected discovery, unearthing nan remains of an 18th-century woody boat.

The find was made this outpouring successful nan confederate Croatian metropolis of Dubrovnik, a medieval locale celebrated for being a filming tract for nan HBO bid "Game of Thrones."

The wreck was recovered successful Dubrovnik’s Old Town harbor.

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Ivan Bukelic told Bulgarian tv web NOVA TV that he uncovered nan woody building backmost successful April.

The undersea builder was moving connected a h2o pipeline astatine nan time.

Workers precocious uncovered an 18th-century woody vessel buried beneath Dubrovnik’s Old Town harbor during pipeline installation. (NOVA TV via The Associated Press)

The boat was embedded successful nan seabed, astir 30 inches beneath nan water floor.

"I tin now opportunity I discovered a vessel [in] nan Old Town Dubrovnik," Bukelic was quoted arsenic saying.

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Marine archaeologist Irena Radić Rossi confirmed that nan vessel was complete 225 years old.

Marine archaeologists are examining nan remnants of a sunken 18th-century vessel disconnected nan seashore of Dubrovnik, Croatia. (NOVA TV via The Associated Press)

"We still cannot speak of nan type of alloy aliases its dimensions, but we tin opportunity for certain, based connected nan results of radiocarbon analysis, that it was from nan precocious 18th century," she said. 

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Rossi added that nan remains are being protected for further examination.

"We must protect it for nan future," nan master stressed.

Experts are moving to protect nan vulnerable remains of nan precocious 18th-century alloy for early study. (NOVA TV via The Associated Press)

Shipwreck discoveries, while exciting, are not wholly unheard of successful Europe — wherever dozens person been recovered aliases identified truthful acold this year.

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This spring, excavators uncovered a centuries-old shipwreck successful an unlikely spot successful Spain: a erstwhile food market.

The woody vessel laic undisturbed beneath nan harbor level for complete 2 hundreds of years earlier its astonishment discovery. (NOVA TV via The Associated Press)

Weeks later, an archaeologist announced that he had discovered nan apt remains of nan Recovery, an 18th-century wealth ship that was mislaid disconnected nan seashore of Wexford, Ireland, astir 240 years ago.

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The Associated Press contributed reporting.