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Origins Of Mysterious World Trade Center Ship Determined
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Quote:In 2010, when digging the foundations for the buildings that will replace the twin towers, workers found a 9.75m long oaken partial hull 7m below what is now street level. Hickory in the keel indicated the ship was almost certainly of North American origin, but its age and specific place of construction were initially a mystery.

Quote:Since the width of tree rings depends on the weather that season, trees growing nearby tend to have ring patterns that match each other fairly closely. When compared to 21 trees of the same species (white oak, Quercus Leucobalanus) from the eastern American seaboard team, led by Dr Dario Martin-Benito, found exceptionally good matches to those from the Keystone State.

“Our results showed the highest agreement between the WTC ship chronology and two chronologies from Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania,” the paper reports. The last rings indicate the ship was built from trees felled in 1773, confirming previous theories.

Quote:"Philadelphia was one of the most — if not the most — important shipbuilding cities in the U.S. at the time. And they had plenty of wood so it made lots of sense that the wood could come from there,” Martin-Benito told Livescience

The wood has previously been found to have been infested with Lyrodus pedicellatus, indicating a trip to the Caribbean at some point. This infestation with shipworm may have led to its premature demise, possibly being used as a sort of reclamation process to bolster Manhattan's defenses against the sea.
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RE: Origins Of Mysterious World Trade Center Ship Determined
Seems like there wouldn’t be any artifacts left to unearth.

The WTC construction was pretty darn deep to begin with and all of that excavated dirt was used to create Battery Park City.

Although rumor has it, Building 7 has a Sphinx buried under it.
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RE: Origins Of Mysterious World Trade Center Ship Determined
(07-30-2014 07:17 PM)AngryAphid Wrote:  Seems like there wouldn’t be any artifacts left to unearth.

The WTC construction was pretty darn deep to begin with and all of that excavated dirt was used to create Battery Park City.

Although rumor has it, Building 7 has a Sphinx buried under it.

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Quote:Although considered part of the World Trade Center site, the location of the ship was not excavated when the original towers were built.
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