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\n\tDivers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy\u2019s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy\u2019s culture minister, said that this is \u201cone of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to the BBC<\/em>, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vessels called amphorae<\/em>. The boat itself is nearly 70 feet long and 20 feet wide, and was discovered at a depth of 150 feet.<\/p>\n \n\tItalian spearfisherman and freediver Giacomo De Mola posted a video on Instagram on August 8 describing \u201cwithout a doubt, the most incredible discovery of my life.\u201d De Mola recounts that he and a friend, Igor Bisulli, were scanning the seabed off the coast of Mazara del Vallo with their StructureScan, which uses sonar technology to view underwater terrain in 3D. What he thought was a large rock turned out to be an ancient ship full of hundreds of pieces of well-preserved pottery. There are also two anchors and a lead pipe. \u201cIt is hard to describe the feeling of being among the first humans in nearly twenty centuries to see that place again,\u201d De Mora wrote.<\/p>\n \n\t\u00a0In a statement, the Carabinieri designated the location of the shipwreck as a \u201csignificant underwater archaeological site\u201d and explained that the site will undergo detailed documentation and study overseen by the Superintendency of the Sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/divers-discover-hundreds-ancient-ceramic-vessels-shipwreck-coast-sicily-1234794628\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shipwreck.jpg?w=1024″] Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy\u2019s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy\u2019s culture minister, said that this is \u201cone of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2088483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}