The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic will deliver the keynote address at a military archeology conference at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut this weekend.
Marine archaeologist Robert Ballard discovered not just the Titanic, but a score of the world’s most famous wrecks – including the Yorktown, the Bismarck and PT-109. He’s a professor at the University of Rhode Island.
The museum says Ballard will be joined by scholars from 17 different countries for the four-day Fields of Conflict conference. Organizers say it’ll be the largest military archaeology conference ever held in the U.S.
Presenters are set to speak on battles from ancient Rome and the Napoleonic Wars to the modern Middle East, as well as domestic conflicts like the Boston Massacre and Native American battlefields.
