Oldest shipwreck claim draws a panel of instant experts

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorArchaeologists say the jars in Turkey may come from the oldest shipwreck ever found, up to forty-seven hundred years old, and that word may is doing all the lifting tonight.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's the oldest. I'm calling it now.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA boat that waited this long for attention is the most patient thing on earth, and I'm on a waiting list until twenty twenty-seven, so I respect it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPatient? It sank, Kenji. That's the opening act. Four thousand years on the bottom is the sea clearing its throat.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLet me finish. If the jars are that old, somebody was shipping stuff before there was a word for shipping.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJars.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorExactly, Hank. First it's jars, then it's the whole ancient supply chain, and I'd bet the sea took it back for being late.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe day my phone arrives, I'm going to be at the bottom of a lake, honoring this boat.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOur professor this evening said it's maybe the oldest, and put it in footnote nine.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRight now that's the most honest thing anyone's said about it.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFootnotes are how civilizations end, Hank.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOkay, okay. Has any one of us seen this wreck?

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNo, but the jars are trending in my head.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex, is there anything on your bench older than that boat?