Sheila Matthews – författare

For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as ""the Glass Wreck"" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation, and the conservation of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possessions of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoveries.

Its the end of the world, and you are OK. Imagine waking up today and your life is exactly the way you dreamed it would be. Allow me to take you to a world where your life is just right. Envision waking up in your ideal house; everything is precisely the way you desire it to be. You are with your perfect soul mate, and you belong to a great family. You exist in a place where each person wish you well and treat you like royalty.I would like to welcome you to planet Zappelli. This planet has a few similarities to planet Earth. The trees here look the same, so do the animals, except everything here is ran differently. The people of this planet are called Teleiotians, which means perfection. Everything functions completely opposite to earth. Every citizen is born into a rich family. The people of this planet are happy beings. Happiness is a way of life there. The word sadness is not known to them. There is no jealousy. Everyone works together and has a common goalthat is to live happy and free and make the best of the life that is given to them. The Zapellians refer to each other as kings and queens. They are supernatural beings. They live for eternity. There are strict rules to this planet. That is why things run so smoothly. The rules apply to everyone of every race. Everyone there has a job and works for four hours a day and four days a week. Jobs are assigned according to their individual skills and born talent.Although no one has the right to tell you what to do or where to work, the work you do is totally up to you. We use our God-given talent here to help our community and our world. We call this process talent sharing. We all function as one. Although we have different personality traits, we function as one. We have a common purpose, a common goal. We all operate within that purpose, and that is to live happy and free and perfect within our world.

For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. Known as "the Glass Wreck," it bore cargo that included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels and eighty pieces of intact glassware, along with various artifacts of ship life.This second volume of the discovery’s investigation focuses on the excavation, conservation, and study of the glass found in the wreckage.The extensive catalog will be a valuable tool for archaeologists and scholars of Islamic glass and Islamic trade. Further, the systematic methodology and presentation of such a large undertaking will serve as a model for future study across many disciplines.  

 

For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as “the Glass Wreck” because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation, and the conservation of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possessions of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoveries.