Divers Discover 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck With 500 Ancient Wine Jars off Sicily
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Fishers off Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, spotted a Roman shipwreck 150 feet below the surface, which Italian cultural heritage divers investigated and found carrying approximately 500 Dressel 1A amphorae believed to date between the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE.
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