| The 1986 two brothers from Kibbutz
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| | height of 1.2 meters (3.9 feet). It is
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| Ginosar discovered the
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| | built in the typical ancient
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| Galilee Boat when a severe drought
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| | Mediterranean 'shell-based' construction,
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| resulted in the lowering of the waters of
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| | employing pegged mortise-and-tenon joints
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| the Sea of Galilee (Hebrew: Yam
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| | to edge-join the planking. Iron nails
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| Kinneret). The vessel had been buried in,
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| | hold the frames to the hull.Numerous
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| and thus protected by, the seabed's
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| | repairs, the reuse of timbers and a
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| sediments. The Antiquities Authority,
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| | multiplicity of wood types (twelve)
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| assisted by many volunteers, rescued the
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| | evident in the hull, suggest that this
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| boat in a remarkable eleven-day
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| | vessel had a long work life an owner of
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| excavation. Excavators packaged the weak
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| | meager means. Based on several criteria
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| and waterlogged hull in a cocoon of
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| | the Galilee Boat is firmly dated to the
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| fiberglass and polyurethane foam, and
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| | first centuries BCE-CE. An analyses of
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| then successfully floated it to the
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| | crew size suggests that this is the type
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| nearby Yigal Allon Centre, where it
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| | of boat referred to in the Gospels in use
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| underwent an extensive carefully
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| | among Jesus' Disciples, as well as that
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| monitored eleven-year-long conservation
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| | used by theagainst the Romans in the
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| process in a specially-built pool.To
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| | nautical Battle of Migdal in CE 67. This
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| conserve it, the boat was submerged in a
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| | humble vessel is, thus, a remarkable
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| solution of heated polyethylene glycol
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| | porthole into the past providing a
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| (PRG). This synthetic wax replaced the
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| | clearer view of the Galilean seafaring
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| water in the wood cells. The hull was
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| | that forms the backdrop to both Jesus'
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| then allowed to dry slowly and cleaned of
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| | ministry and the Battle of Migdal.In
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| excess wax, thus allowing for its present
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| | February 2000, fourteen years after its
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| exhibition in the atmosphere-controlled
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| | excavation, the boat moved to its
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| museum environment.The boat is preserved
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| | permanent home, in a new wing of the
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| to a length of 8.2 meters (26.9 feet), a
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| | Yigal Allon Centre, which is devoted to
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| breadth of 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) and a
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| | the story of man in the Galilee.
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