A spearfisherman diving off the coast of Sicily thought he had spotted an unremarkable rock formation150 feet below the surface. What he actually found was a Roman-era merchant vessel, resting on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian divers have discovered the wreck of a Roman ship off the coast of Sicily thought to be at least 2,100 years old. The ship, ...

While scanning the seabed for fish off the coast of Sicily, champion spearfisherman Giacomo De Mola dove 150 and stumbled ...

Hundreds of ancient Roman clay vessels were discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. (all images courtesy Carabinieri - Tutela Patrimonio Culturale) While exploring the warm waters of the ...

A Sicilian spearfisherman thought he was exploring a large rock when he discovered a Roman-era shipwreck with hundreds of amphorae. Found off the coast of Sicily, the wreck measures 69 feet long and ...

Rome (CNN) — Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport ...

In a sterile laboratory in France, Armelle Charrié-Duhaut pores over black shavings of ancient tar to piece together the final, last-ditch voyages of a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck. Through a ...

A Roman-era shipwreck that has remained untouched on the seabed for more than 2,000 years has been uncovered by divers off the coast of Sicily, police on the Mediterranean island said. Italian Culture ...

More than two millennia ago, a Roman Republic ship carrying timber and wine sank in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of what is now Croatia. Remarkably, the wreck offers clear evidence of an elaborate ...

Divers discovered a centuries-old Roman shipwreck about three miles off the coast of Sicily after a tip from the public. The site, believed to be dated between the second and first centuries B.C., ...