Archaeologists Dove to the Bottom of the Mediterranean—and Found a 2,500-Year-Old Shipwreck

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. There’s a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily that is so old, researchers aren’t even sure what materials were used to make the vessel. One of those stone anchors was broken, and may have featured two wooden flukes to help hold them into the seafloor. The underwater exploration is part of the Kaukana Project—an effort to research the cultural heritage buried off the coast of Sicily that has been ongoing since 2017. Francesco Paolo Scarpinato, councilor for cultural heritage and Sicilian identity, called the wreck a “precious piece of the Sicilian submerged cultural heritage.”