1,500 year-old boats found

Washington - Explorers discovered the remains of four wooden ships - one of them almost perfectly preserved - believed to be …

Washington - Explorers discovered the remains of four wooden ships - one of them almost perfectly preserved - believed to be 1,500 years old in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey, a US oceanographer and researcher, Mr Robert Ballard, announced here yesterday.

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