Show how ships will be salved calved italian government engineers have a plan for raising from lake newt near rome home the pleasure galleys of emperor tiberius who died in 87 37 A D it Is in believed that these galleys galley are well preserved and that they will throw much light on the social life of the roman nobility of that period the question has attracted the attention of archaeologists archeologists for centuries even as early as the sixteenth cen ury nry a scientist named alberti albert risked his life in an attempt to raise the ancient vessels about thirty years ago professor maes macs who ft ho spent years yeara on his project devised machinery which raised valuable pieces of bronze and marble but it wai w q found impossible to raise the galleys because of their great weight ry by the new plan the lake will be drained by cutting a tunnel through the side of the extinct volcano crater in which the lake la Is situated the project will probably cost pathfinder magazine |