Once everything was mixed together, the team tested the hydrogel on actual shipwreck wood. The wood samples came from an 800-year-old sunken vessel from the Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong.

Languages: English, Spanish A historic wooden shipwreck appeared on a beach only to vanish again just days later. The discovery was made on January 12, 2025, near Rantum, a village on the island ...

Wooden artifacts from shipwrecks are drenched with seawater, an environment that enables acid-producing bacteria and wood-eating fungi to thrive. To prevent damage from acid and microbes ...

These days, we continue to frame houses with wood; it's not typically used to build modern ships unless you're talking about a specialty ship or some of the most expensive celebrity yachts ...

We're finding evidence of all of this in the artefacts on board the ship." The excavation team unearthed items belonging to the start of the gunpowder era, including several intact wooden ...

Video captured by underwater robots of the shipwreck shows Endurance to be in remarkable condition. The ship sank 107 years ago and has been missing ever since. But even though it has been sitting ...

Archaeologists radiocarbon dated the wood and concluded the ship was “likely constructed in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries.” It was used for “decades” and had undergone ...