By: Hannah Brown - September 23, 2020

A masthead found in a shipwreck off northern Israel sheds new light on sailing and shipbuilding during the Late Antiquity period, according to a new paper just published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.

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 the authors of the paper, titled, “Rigging of the Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck (7th–8th centuries AD): new finds.”

Rare masthead from ancient shipwreck found in northern Israel