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