5 Roman merchant ships found intact off Italian coast
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Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact, official said Friday.
The ships are submerged between 100 and 150 meters (about 330 to 490 feet) off Ventotene, a tiny island that is part of an archipelago off Italy's west coast between Rome and Naples.
The ships, which date from between the 1st century B.C. and the 4th century, carried amphorae — vases used for holding wine, olive oil and other products — as well as kitchen tools and metal and glass objects that have yet to be identified, Italy's Culture Ministry said. The spot was highly trafficked, and hit by frequent storms and dangerous sea currents.
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Back around 1990 I moved to Northern California with an old girlfriend and stayed with her sister and brother-in-law for a few weeks. He was a marine something-ist. Years later I saw him doing an interview about the Titanic on the Discovery Channel. It seems the company he was working for produced the technology they used to find it, so he was on the first team to go down and explore it. That's pretty cool stuff.
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Fun fact: The island of Ventotene was known in Roman times as Pandateria.That's the island where Augustus exiled his daughter Julia after he found out about her well-established promiscuity.
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Pandateria? Is that the land of the panderers?
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5 Roman merchant ships found intact off Italian coast
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