A Maritime Pompeii

Tourists on their way to see Pisa's leaning tower now have a new site to see. Archaeologists digging near the train station have unearthed what is nothing short of a maritime Pompeii. So far the excavation has turned up 39 ancient shipwrecks buried under nine centuries of silt, which preserved extraordinary artifacts. What's most dramatic about the discovery of this maritime graveyard is that the ships date from different centuries both before and after the advent of the Christian era, meaning the shipwrecks did not happen simultaneously but over time in the same area. Read the story here.

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