Sunken Alaskan sternwheeler is an underwater time capsule
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 21:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The A.J. Goddard carried miners in the Klondike Gold Rush, then sank in 1901. Tools were scattered on deck and tongs remained in a forge, said the team of archaeologists that discovered the wreck. Underwater archaeologists said Monday they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River sternwheeler so well-preserved that researchers can document...