Rare masthead from an ancient shipwreck found in northern Israel

Maayan Cohen, a PhD candidate at the department of maritime civilizations at the University of Haifa, and Dr. Deborah Cvikel, a researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and a senior lecturer at the department of maritime civilizations – both at the University of Haifa – are featured in a Jerusalem Post article about their recently published paper, titled, “Rigging of the Ma’agan Mikhael B shipwreck (7th–8th centuries AD): new finds.”

See here: https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/rare-masthead-from-ancient-shipwreck-found-in-northern-israel-643272

Photo by R. Levinson