Antibes

  • Roman Ship From Antibes Redux

    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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  • I’ve been trying to find out a bit more about this Roman shipwreck find which seems to be an ‘exclusive’ of the Past Horizons folks (A Roman shipwreck in the ancient port of Antibes). To supplement that, I’ve come across a podcast with an interview with a couple of the archaeologists involved (in French): Découverte…

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