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>>Oarch+(OP)
I wonder if any special care was required to cut a subfossilized 5000 year old piece of wood - does it get appreciably harder over time? Or was that not long enough?

Also interesting that they had to dry it out and the planks shrank by half. I wonder if they considered having to replace the liquid with something else, such as was done with the Vasa ship which was submerged for a few hundred years.

>>zdw+it
Its always been my understanding that recovered timbers need some sort of fluid replacement. The Mary Rose had 19years of being sprayed with PEG.

https://maryrose.org/news/mary-rose-enters-final-phase-of-co...

For almost three decades since being raised from the Solent, the hull of the Mary Rose – Henry VIII’s 500-year-old flagship – has been continuously sprayed, first with chilled fresh water to remove salt and then with Polyethlene Glycol (PEG), a water soluble wax.