Ventotene
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This is a rather good one on the excavation and recovery of artifacts from a shipwreck of Ventotene, which also includes a nice segment on the making of garum, inter alia. For background on the discovery back in 2009: Roman Shipwrecks of Ventotene
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This one just started filtering in this a.m. … here’s the Reuters coverage: A team of marine archaeologists using sonar scanners have discovered four ancient shipwrecks off the tiny Italian island of Zannone, with intact cargoes of wine and oil. The remains of the trading vessels, dating from the first century BC to the 5th-7th…
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