A Roman Republic-era shipwreck carrying roughly 500 amphorae has been found off the coast of Sicily. It dates to between the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C.
A report from two spear fishermen led the Carabinieri cultural heritage division and Sicilian heritage officers to the location three nautical miles off the coast of Mazaro del Vallo in western Sicily the place divers noticed a area of amphorae at a depth of 46 meters (151 toes). The amphorae are primarily of the Dressel 1A kind, giant two-handled vessels broadly usually used to move wine within the second and first centuries B.C. They had been manufactured in central Italy — Etruria, Lazio and south to Campania — and shipped all through the Mediterranean commerce routes. 
There are additionally Lamboglia 2 kind from northern Africa, and one Neo-Punic kind.
The amphora area is roughly 21 meters (69 toes) lengthy, six meters (19’8″) vast and two meters (6’7″) deep. Divers additionally positioned two anchor shares fabricated from lead and a 3rd lead object that could be a part of a lead pipe.
The wreck … was described by Italy’s tradition minister, Alessandro Giuli, as “one of the vital vital underwater archaeological discoveries of latest years”.
Giuli stated the wreck supplied “valuable fragments of our historical past” and supplied additional proof of the commerce routes and exchanges that made the Mediterranean “a crossroads of civilisations”. […]
Over the approaching months, Sicily’s superintendency of the ocean is predicted to hold out a brand new section of scientific documentation and analysis on the website. Archaeologists will search to ascertain extra exactly the date of the wreck, the origin and supposed vacation spot of its cargo, and the situation of the surviving materials, whereas additionally drawing up measures to guard what officers have described as a website of remarkable archaeological significance.
