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Posted on 08/11/2026 6:38:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Roman-era shipwreck has been found off Mazara del Vallo, along with hundreds of amphorae on the seabed. Culture Minister Giuli has hailed the discovery as "extraordinary"...
A Roman-era shipwreck, probably dating from between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, has been located around three miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo, at a depth of 46 metres.
On the seabed, the Italian Ministry of Culture reports, there are hundreds of amphorae, mostly of the Dressel 1A type, two lead anchor stocks and another structure made of the same material.
The discovery was made during a joint inspection carried out by the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit (TPC) in Palermo, the Sea Superintendency of the Sicilian Region and the Carabinieri Underwater Unit in Messina, with support from the Carabinieri patrol boat in Trapani, following a tip-off from private citizens...
This text was translated with the help of artificial intelligence and originally published in Italian.
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Both of us discovered that the meaning precisely matched the photograph. A touch of deduction would have saved the day. ;-D
And don’t go to his house for a drink...........
(The Cask of Amontillado).................
They’d store a lot of Hoppe’s #9.
A video says this was a wine shipment.
Wine before my time! I had an old friend who gave me 50 bottles of wine when he moved. I almost hurt myself carrying it all, lol. One was a French bottle of 1978 Saint-Louis Beaujolais. I still have it. He passed many years ago.
I used to love the smell of that stuff. Later I found out it was full of Benzene.
Couldn’t they have been called “vessels”? Then we’d all be in the know.
Thanks...
Yeah but the ship is a vessel.
They could have called them Jars.
Wow! Great friend!
I’ve never met Beaujolais, but Anjelinajolais used to live in Europe I think. /rimshot
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Some of them contained Night Train and Boone’s Farm.
“...used to live in Europe...”
It’s the Pitts!.............
“”I used to love the smell of that stuff. Later I found out it was full of Benzene.””
I couldn’t stand the smell...and my husband complained about my fingernail polish remover..I don’t know which was worse. He’s passed away but if he was still here, he could use as much Hoppes as he wanted and I’d stay quiet....
Olive oil had many uses...
https://www.chefsresource.com/what-was-olive-oil-used-for-in-ancient-times/
Could have been a Punic War casualty!
When i was active, we passed thru that area on a nuclear powered cruiser in storm. Very choppy rough seas. I can only imagine how frightening in a sailing vessel.
*somewhere* around here I think the battle site for that was ID’ed. Maybe. Possibly. This one probably ran into something on the way to a port (the island itself?) — could have been a rock, could have been a bad storm.
Lots of hilly terrain undersea there.
My wife calls it “Men’s Perfume”.
Sailing in Roman Empire times could be treacherous!
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