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Radiation Safety for Sunken-Ship Archaeology

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2015Environment, Scienceaircraft carrier, ancient reliefs, ancient sculpture hall, archaeology, assurnasirpal palace, color conceptualization, colors in mesopotamia, isotopes, lei shi, long lost pigments, noaa, radiation safety, san francisco, study tree rings, tree called prometheus, world war

Berkeley Lab researchers help scientists determine the radiation risk of exploring an underwater aircraft carrier.

About 42 miles southwest of San Francisco and 2,600 feet underwater sits the U.S.S. Independence, a bombed-out relic from World War II. The aircraft carrier was a target ship in atomic weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands after the war. Then, in 1951, it was loaded up with 55-gallon drums of low-level radioactive waste and scuttled just south of the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge off the California coast. (more…)

‘Digging’ for color: The search for Egyptian Blue in ancient reliefs

Bright colors are a rare sight in the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) ancient sculpture hall. The gallery’s now-white objects were once brightly painted, their brilliant colors having faded or been destroyed over time. A team of Yale researchers is now working in the museum’s ancient galleries to map one of the long-lost pigments — Egyptian Blue — on two reliefs from ancient Assyria. (more…)

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Radiation Safety for Sunken-Ship Archaeology

‘Digging’ for color: The search for Egyptian Blue in ancient reliefs