Historiansclaimthat the ancient Egyptians routinely sailed as far as the Black Sea and the coast of the Balkans to get their hands on imagination not found along the Nile . However , it ’s always been doubted whether this touch-and-go journeying across the bouldery Aegean Sea would even be potential using the engineering available at the time .
Now , an international squad of devil - may - maintenance adventurers , together with their ship based on ancient rock nontextual matter found in upper Egypt and the Caucasus , are desire to voyage a little closer to the truth .
Mission ABORAIVis set to enter on a journeying covering over 1,300 klick ( ~700 nautical miles ) from the Black Sea , through the Bosphorus strait and the Aegean Sea , to the Grecian island of Crete in a 14 - beat - foresighted ( 46 - fundament ) vessel . On August 1 , the ship was run up into the waters off the seacoast of Beloslav , a small Bulgarian industrial township , where it will rest and soak for a couple of weeks before set off . Theboat is made out of spruce beams and 12 tonne ( 13 rafts ) of reed , not too different to those believed to have been used by late Neolithic and other Bronze Age cultures .
" The main enquiry of all is whether this sauceboat is able to cross the difficult island shelf of the Aegean Sea , " Dominique Goerlitz , the crew ’s 53 - year - old expedition leader , toldAFP word agency .
AsMission ABORAexplains in a Facebook post , the ship ’s life started a piddling over a year ago when 12 tonnes of beating-reed instrument were harvested at Lake Titikaka in Bolivia . By the beginning of 2019 , the bales of reed had arrived in Bulgaria and an outside team spend 10 week fashion a reed boat .
While the team aim to use stuff genuine to ancient vessel , they are not adopt any opportunity and are also bringing advanced safety equipment , such as a safety raft , GPS , and receiving set communicating . After all , ancient Egypt was n’t too hot on health and base hit .
Nevertheless , they do have experience on their side . The ABORA team has three previous voyages under its belt , the recent being in 2007when a watercraft sailed from New York bound for southerly Spain in a bid to prove that Stone Age human beings could have made trans - Atlantic journeying . While this expedition ultimately resulted in failure due to a string of unfortunate windstorms across the Atlantic , the team is convinced that ABORA IV will finish the journeying in a breeze .
“ I am 100 percent sure that this ship will never sink . And as long as the ship is float we have a base hit stack here , " said voluntary Mark Pales , also speaking toAFP .
