biggest ever roman shipwreck found.

[Sheldon J]

From and more photo's and story at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl.../ar-AAKa8QP?ocid=spartandhp#image=AAKa8QP_1|1

Two thousand years ago, this ship was crossing the Mediterranean Sea full of its cargo of amphorae -- large terracotta pots which were used in the Roman Empire for transporting wine and olive oil. For some reason, it never made it to its destination.But having languished at the bottom of the sea for around two millennia, it has now been rediscovered by archeologists, along with its cargo, and dated to between 100 BCE and 100 CE. And it has already been judged to be the largest classical shipwreck ever found in the eastern Mediterranean.

The wreck of the 110-foot (35-meter) ship, along with its cargo of 6,000 amphorae, was discovered during a sonar-equipped survey of the seabed off the coast of Kefalonia -- one of the Ionian islands off the west coast of Greece. ​

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[eyemustdigtreasure]

A real Treasure-trove of information lies on the bottom of the sea...!
Thanks for the post!

 

[Force_of_Iron]

Unless those were empty that ship was seriously overloaded. My guess is that they were going to make a short trip somewhere and overloaded the vessel in clear weather/ stable seas. Somewhere in between ports a sudden storm swept in and took it down. We really take weather forecasting for granted nowadays.