| The 1986 two brothers from Kibbutz Ginosar | | | | The boat is preserved to a length of 8.2 meters (26.9 |
| discovered the | | | | feet), a breadth of 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) and a height |
| Galilee Boat when a severe drought resulted in the | | | | of 1.2 meters (3.9 feet). It is built in the typical ancient |
| lowering of the waters of the Sea of Galilee (Hebrew: | | | | Mediterranean 'shell-based' construction, employing |
| Yam Kinneret). The vessel had been buried in, and thus | | | | pegged mortise-and-tenon joints to edge-join the |
| protected by, the seabed's sediments. The Antiquities | | | | planking. Iron nails hold the frames to the hull. |
| Authority, assisted by many volunteers, rescued the | | | | Numerous repairs, the reuse of timbers and a |
| boat in a remarkable eleven-day excavation. | | | | multiplicity of wood types (twelve) evident in the hull, |
| Excavators packaged the weak and waterlogged hull | | | | suggest that this vessel had a long work life an owner |
| in a cocoon of fiberglass and polyurethane foam, and | | | | of meager means. Based on several criteria the |
| then successfully floated it to the nearby Yigal Allon | | | | Galilee Boat is firmly dated to the first centuries |
| Centre, where it underwent an extensive carefully | | | | BCE-CE. An analyses of crew size suggests that this |
| monitored eleven-year-long conservation process in a | | | | is the type of boat referred to in the Gospels in use |
| specially-built pool. | | | | among Jesus' Disciples, as well as that used by |
| To conserve it, the boat was submerged in a solution | | | | theagainst the Romans in the nautical Battle of Migdal |
| of heated polyethylene glycol (PRG). This synthetic | | | | in CE 67. This humble vessel is, thus, a remarkable |
| wax replaced the water in the wood cells. The hull | | | | porthole into the past providing a clearer view of the |
| was then allowed to dry slowly and cleaned of | | | | Galilean seafaring that forms the backdrop to both |
| excess wax, thus allowing for its present exhibition in | | | | Jesus' ministry and the Battle of Migdal. |
| the atmosphere-controlled museum environment. | | | | |