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