The city’s main harbor, located along the Gulf of Corinth, was the largest port in ancient Greece ... They did so in ships likely loaded with pottery, perfume, food, and fabrics to trade ...

making it the largest known ancient shipwreck, says Woods Hole underwater archaeologist and team member Brendan Foley. Hundreds of passengers went down with the ship, Foley suspects.

The barge is one of more than 70 wrecks found in what is described by experts from the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) as the world’s largest “graveyard of ancient ships”.

They found the remains of a massive building, dating to the second century, where ancient ships were likely built ... this would be the largest of its kind in Italy or the Mediterranean," dig ...