Will this ship rewrite history? After 20 years of preparation, historians are ready to start putting one of the oldest boats in the world back together.
The ghost ship rising from a Welsh river
Will this ship rewrite history? After 20 years of preparation, historians are ready to start putting one of the oldest boats in the world back together.
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Working on the new arts centre in NewportA city in Wales in the United Kingdom. looked easy enough. But then the builders made a puzzling find: some old planks of wood. When they cleared away the mud, they found the last pieces of a very old, very large ship.
That was in July 2002. Now, after years of working on the ship, experts are ready to start putting it back together again.
They hope that people from all across Wales, Britain and even the world will travel to Newport to see it.
The ship sank more than 500 years ago. It was used to take items such as wine around the world.
There are other old ships in museums around the world. But historians say this ship is rare because it is from the 1400s.
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Will this ship rewrite history?
Yes! The ship has already shown us a lot. We now know just how good people were at building ships in the 1400s, and which items they sold around the world.
No! We already knew that ships sailed at that time between different countries. The Newport ship just confirmsShows that something is definitely true. what we already know about.
Newport - A city in Wales in the United Kingdom.
Confirms - Shows that something is definitely true.
The ghost ship rising from a Welsh river

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Newport - A city in Wales in the United Kingdom.
Confirms - Shows that something is definitely true.