From the article:

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(AP) In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern
Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient
civilizations around the Black Sea.

Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of
centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept
pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled.

Hiebert knows now why they did. After some preliminary trips, the
University of Pennsylvania professor and other scientists will go on a
first-ever effort to excavate ancient ships and a possible human
settlement left mummified in the Black Sea's oxygen-free waters.
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J. Spaceman