Neat 5 shipwrecks found from as far back as the 1st cent BC
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:16 am
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part of the storyThu Jul 23, 9:30 am ET
ROME (Reuters) – A team of archaeologists using sonar technology to scan the seabed have discovered a "graveyard" of five pristine ancient Roman shipwrecks off the small Italian island of Ventotene.
The trading vessels, dating from the first century BC to the fifth century AD, lie more than 100 meters underwater and are amongst the deepest wrecks discovered in the Mediterranean in recent years, the researchers said on Thursday.