Workers Were Excavating The Ruins Of 9/11 When They Unearthed A Massive 250-Year-Old Secret

Nobody can ever forget the fateful day of 9/11 when the two jet planes smashed into the towers. The North Tower was the first to go, followed by the South Towers. Within a matter of a few hours, the Twin Towers were nowhere to be seen. Not just the Twin Towers, the impact was so huge that the surrounding building also came crashing down. The site was later called Ground Zero. It took almost eight months to clear the debris before the reconstruction work can actually begin. It was in July 2010, when a team of workers, working in the underground parking lot, unearthed something that date back two centuries. The archaeologists have been working on the site since the time they have discovered ceramic pieces to bottles and discarded shoes. Molly McDonald, an archaeologist working on the site was surprised to discover remains of a 19^th-century wooden dock. Even remains of the ship were also excavated from the place. There was an extension of the Lower Manhattan coast between the 1790s and 1830s, and it is assumed that the ship would have remained there in the garbage from that time. The ship remained intact because the garbage area was completely oxygen-free, restricting the growth of bacteria, thus the ship was preserved naturally. Now that the ship is exposed to the air, it could get rotten anytime soon, if proper measures are not taken to preserve it properly. The group of archaeologist only got 5 days to shift the remains of the ship to the lab and they worked 16 hours daily to make it possible. The age of the ship is 200-years-old and further studies revealed the wood used for the construction of the ship was cut around 1773. Hickory Oak was used to build this ship and this form of wood is only found in the east part of North America and Asia. The old wood then found its match in the wood from Philadelphia, the popular shipbuilding center of the 18^th century. Once the origin of the wood was settled, the next big question was about the kind of vessel. It was assumed that the 32 feet long vessel was mainly a sailing ship that was used to transport between New York and Albany. Soon steam driven vessel took over the sailing ships, but that is not the reason why this vessel ended in Manhattan. It was actually the shipworms that were found in the Caribbean, which spelled the end for the vessel. The vessel might have shifted its route from the Hudson to the Caribbean where it was infected, resulting in its dumping at Manhattan.