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So not much has happened to the ancient Greek trading ship as it has rested on its side in the anoxic darkness 2,000m (1.2 miles) below the surface, even as two and a half millennia of history ...
Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus paradox questions if identity remains when all parts change, challenging what it means to be the ...
so there weren’t too many ship remnants to speak of. Instead, the team found mostly cargo, including large troves of amphorae—handled jars that were common containers in ancient Greece and Rome.
The ship's design tipped off researchers to its ancient origin. The build is one only previously seen in Greek pottery like the famed "Siren's Vase," currently located in the British Museum.
Off the coast of Bulala, Sicily, the wreck of an ancient Greek ship was discovered by two scuba divers in 1988. The ship was from the 5th century B.C.E. and was later named "Gela II." The wreck ...
A DNA analysis of ancient storage jars suggests that Greek sailors traded a wide range ... containers of the ancient world — from sunken ships dating from the fifth to the third centuries ...
A sunken trading ship believed to be from ancient Greece has been found in remarkable condition at the bottom of the Black Sea, The Guardian reports. Archaeologists say the vessel is more than ...
A Maryland deep-sea salvage company has discovered the deepest ancient shipwreck ... ports in ancient Greece might have been more common. “We’d always believed that ships hugged the coast ...
A new survey of an iconic ancient shipwreck off ... vessel's hull and the remains of a wooden ship that was "beneath the crushed cargo it was carrying," the Greek Ministry of Culture announced ...
A DNA analysis of ancient storage jars suggests that Greek sailors traded a wide range ... containers of the ancient world--from sunken ships dating from the fifth to the third centuries BC.