Underwater Archaeology
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This is one which I tried to report about a year ago (when it was originally discovered) but the link went kablooey on me … so technically this is an update of something which you might have seen in Explorator last year, but I couldn’t get it into rogueclassicism, so we have a bit of…
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We mentioned this one last week when most of the coverage was in French … the story finally did hit the English papers, e.g., the Guardian (which picked up coverage from Le Monde) It looks like the rib cage of a large marine mammal, whose bones turned black as it was fossilised. The wreck was…
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This just in from ANSA: Archaeologists are investigating the discovery of a gilded bronze lion found off the coast of Calabria not far from where the famed Riace Bronzes were discovered 40 years ago. Armour in bronze and copper was also found by a diver and two tourists in the area that is now closed…
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This one’s more for my own write-this-down-because-it-might-lead-somewhere purposes … La Repubblica has a video report of a underwater find of a large quantity of obsidian off Capri: Nelle acque di Capri riemerge carico di ossidiana dall’antichità … ANSA, via Napoli Today, has the report in print: Ritrovamento di un carico navale di ossidiana risalente a…
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… and it has wine in it! From Typically Spanish: Archaeologists in Vélez-Málaga Town Hall have discovered a Roman Amphora, dating from the first century. What’s more the experts say it’s still full of wine which they think is in ‘perfect conditions’ because the vessel is hermetically sealed. The Councillor for Culture and Heritage in…
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