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When Water Betrays: Racing to Save 300-Year-Old Sunken Timber
When Water Betrays: Racing to Save 300-Year-Old Sunken Timber
Mud-preserved timber frames, buried for roughly 300 years along the Alexandria waterfront, began to die the moment they met air - and conservators found the only way to keep them alive was to drown them again. How do you replace centuries of the earth’s chemistry, stabilize cell walls that begin collapsing within weeks, and decide what to put inside wood that remembers every treatment it has ever received?
In this episode, we follow the discovery in January 2016 and the eighteen-month effort to keep the frames in equilibrium while…
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