Shipwreck re-writes history of Western Civilisation
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HISTORY is being re-written by marine archaeologists who have just discovered a “truly ground-breaking” set of ship wrecks off Lebanon that put in doubt the long held belief that western civilisation invented globalised trade. Ancient wrecks ranging from early Islamic…