National Geographic has turned its gaze several times towards the same point of the Mediterranean: an elephant, a rocky reef in front of La Manga where a Phoenician ship sank 27 centuries ago. It is not a new finding, but it is one of the richest ever documented in Spanish waters. 68 elephant tusks, some with hand-carved Phoenician graffiti, changed what we knew about the commercial routes of Antiquity. The petio is located in the Lower Campana,…
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National Geographic has turned its gaze several times towards the same point of the Mediterranean: an elephant, a rocky reef in front of La Manga where a Phoenician ship sank 27 centuries ago. It is not a new finding, but it is one of the richest ever documented in Spanish waters. 68 elephant tusks, some with hand-carved Phoenician graffiti, changed what we knew about the commercial routes of Antiquity. The petio is located in the Lower Campana,…