This is an amazing discovery as this rope is 2,000 years old. Usually anything made of fibre is long degraded away at this age which is of course why so many textiles disappear too.
This was found in the remains of a Roman ship which has been unearthed by Italian archaeologists near the ancient port of Rome.
Read the article here
Thanks for this post. It was really interesting. How you manage to find the time to do all you do absolutlely amazes me. Keep it up. Thanks for sharing
it still seems incredible when something as fragile, passes through the centuries to us. by coincidence, in my last post, my blog, I spoke of another vestige of the past, the Bayeux Tapestry (http://pierrespapiersciseaux.blogspot.com/2012/02/guillaume-le-conquerant-et-la.html)