Sicilian secrets revealed

The cargo was carried in amphorae that were found nearly intact

A joint expedition has recently created three-dimensional underwater maps of Roman shipwrecks in the Aeolian Islands. A team of scientists and experts under the direction of the Professor Sebastiano Tusa, Superintendent of the Seas for Sicily, set out to investigate Roman shipwrecks, originally discovered by Aurora Trust Foundation in 2009 ...

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