Over the past 100 years, several shipwrecks have been excavated, raised and conserved. For instance, the Viking-period Oseberg ship was found embedded in waterlogged clay at a land site excavation in Norway in 19022. Additionally, the warship, Vasa, was raised in 1961 after 333 years in the brackish and cold waters of the Baltic Sea3. King Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose was discovered in 1971 and raised in 19824. Now in the final stages of conservation, it takes its place in a stunning and unique museum. However, another example is the Late Bronze Age Uluburun ship that sank off the Turkish coast at approximately 1335–1320 BC5. Under waterlogged and anaerobic conditions, archaeological wood is relatively well protected from biological decomposition compared to the degradation that occurs in most terrestrial environments. Some organisms, however, including bacteria and soft rot fungi, can still degrade waterlogged wood that is of significant archaeological value.