{"id":7037665,"date":"2026-08-11T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/divers-discover-ancient-ceramic-vessels-amid-shipwreck-off-sicily\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:29:23","slug":"divers-discover-ancient-ceramic-vessels-amid-shipwreck-off-sicily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7037665","title":{"rendered":"Divers Discover Ancient Ceramic Vessels Amid Shipwreck Off Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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<\/a> on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy\u2019s culture minister, said<\/a> that this is \u201cone of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording<\/a> 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

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\n\tItalian spearfisherman and freediver Giacomo De Mola posted<\/a> 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<\/a>, 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><\/div>\n