A wooden stanchion with a hand-carved notch in the Black Sea

A wooden stanchion with a hand-carved notch stands as it has for 1,500 years on a ship found in deep waters of the Black Sea. The stanchion is one of several still standing that might have helped support a protective cover. (Credit: National Geographic Society, © Institute for Exploration)

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