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[editing]
Oh,
thank Mary!
Editing
involves research, fact checking and word finesse. Here is how
Monika has teased out an interesting, coherent story from a
rough, short text. First, read the original translated story.
Then, read her edited story. What a difference a little context
makes!
Original
story
In
a few weeks, Hungarian archeologists will launch a search in the
Danube after the sunken ships of Queen Mary who was fleeing the
country after a war towards Vienna when some of her ships sunk. A
radar obtained with the assistance of an American foundation will
be used to explore the bottom of the river, reports inforadio.hu.
According to Attila J. Toth, a department leader of the
Hungarian Alliance Archeology and History of Art is sure that
they will find interesting places of discovery but whether the
ship remains belong to Queen Mary's caravan can only be found out
by diving in and inspecting them closely. A more than ten
kilometers long area in the curve of the Danube will be explored.
So far remains of ships, pile-dwellings and even
underwater villages have been found in the Danube. The most
interesting finding was a fleet of 30 ships with copper vessels
from the Turkish era.
Story
edited by Monika
The
legend goes something like this: after the disastrous Battle of
Mohács in 1526, the twenty-one-year-old Queen Mary of
Hungary fled the encroaching Ottoman army on a caravan of ships
headed to Vienna. But, on her way up the Danube, a few ships sank
along with their valuable cargo. It is said that to this day they
remain hidden in the murky depths of the river.
Soon, any
truth to this story may soon be discovered, or disproved.
According to inforadio.hu, a team of Hungarian
archaeologists are launching an underwater excavation of the
Danube to find ships identified by radar technology obtained with
the assistance of an unidentified American foundation.
The
investigation is bound to be interesting, says Attila J. Tóth,
departmental leader of the Hungarian Alliance Archeology and
History of Art (Magyar
Régészeti és Muvészettörténeti
Társulat),
but whether or not the remains of the submerged sunken ships
actually belong to the Hapsburg Queen's caravan can only be
determined with intensive scuba diving.
The team is
serious in their quest, the portal reports, and plans to explore
more than ten kilometers of the Danube.
So far, Hungarian
divers have had successful underwater historical excavations.
Previously they unearthed remains of ships, pile-dwellings and an
underwater village. Perhaps the most interesting find was a fleet
of 30 ships with copper vessels inside that dated to the Ottoman
era in Hungary.
Exactly what treasures Queen Mary lost
when her ships sunk was not reported. She was the wife of Louis
II of Hungary and Bohemia, who was killed in battle, and while
she arrived safely in Vienna, she never remarried nor renounced
her ties to Hungary. She died in 1558 in what is now northern
Spain.
Link
to the article online: Dive
team to scour Danube for Queen Mary's lost belongings
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