Shipwrecks reveal ‘birth of globalization’ in trade
May 14, 2020
2 minutes
Photo courtesy of Enigma Recoveries
BRITAIN — For almost seven decades, archaeologists have searched the eastern Mediterranean in vain for wrecks that sank along antiquity’s mighty shipping lanes.
Now, though, a British-led team was recently finally able to reveal a spectacular discovery — a fleet of Hellenistic, Roman, early Islamic and Ottoman wrecks that were lost below the waves
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