Free Divers Thought They Found a Pile of Rocks. It Was a 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck

Gayoung Lee· Aug 10, 2026 · 3:40 PM UTC ·2 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 5 views

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Sometime between the second and first centuries BCE, a Roman ship carrying hundreds of wine-holding vases sank to the bottom of the sea near the coast of modern-day Sicily. Divers Giacomo De Mola and Bisulli Igor encountered the ship at a depth of 151 feet (46 meters). Further investigations by government authorities found that the ship carried hundreds of amphorae, two-handled pots archaeologists believe were used to carry different liquids and grains.

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▪Sometime between the second and first centuries BCE, a Roman ship carrying hundreds of wine-holding vases sank to the bottom of the sea near the coast of modern-day Sicily.
▪Divers Giacomo De Mola and Bisulli Igor encountered the ship at a depth of 151 feet (46 meters).
▪Further investigations by government authorities found that the ship carried hundreds of amphorae, two-handled pots archaeologists believe were used to carry different liquids and grains.

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Sometime between the second and first centuries BCE, a Roman ship carrying hundreds of wine-holding vases sank to the bottom of the sea near the coast of modern-day Sicily. And that’s where it lay for the next two thousand years—until two divers ran into the shipwreck by accident.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000796467","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"science","SECTION":"human-history","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"human-history","TAGS":"archaeology,marine-archaeology,roman-empire","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); In a statement (translated via Google) last Saturday, the Italian Ministry of…

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