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Posted: **Fri May 16, 2003 11:42 am**

Thursday, May 15, 2003 Posted: 5:21 PM EDT (2121 GMT)
DE MEERN, Netherlands (AP) -- Archaeologists unveiled the oldest shipwreck ever recovered in the Netherlands on Thursday, an astonishingly well-preserved Roman military transport that sank along the banks of the Rhine 18 centuries ago.

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/05/15/netherlands.roman.barg.ap/

If anyone has links to more info please post them, I'm interested in following this story.

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2003 11:43 am**

Here's another list of news articles:

http://news.google.com/news?q=barge+roman+rhine&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&sa=N&tab=nn

Posted: **Sat May 17, 2003 7:29 pm**

thanks for all the info very interesting (i still want to kno wat is in that chest though!)

Xander

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2003 5:09 am**

pics, damn you!

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2003 10:46 am**

i still want to kno wat is in that chest though!)

maybe geraldo will have a TV special.

-+G

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2003 11:06 am**

Mags

this one has two pictures, an artist's impression and one photo.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030516.wbarge0516/BNStory/International/

More may be coming soon.

Z

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