US Edition2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Discovered in Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel
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The European depths continue to surprise. This time, radars and underwater monitoring cameras revealed an accumulation of historical materials sunk a few meters from the surface. This immediately triggered preparations for a complex tactical diving expedition. It was nothing less than a shipwrecked Roman ship. What was preserved in its warehouses gave rise to an accurate and unaltered photograph of the impressive logistical machinery that the em…
Ceramics, tools, swords – a spectacular discovery at the bottom of a Swiss lake provides unique insights into the challenges of the Roman trading world of the first century. The finds seem untouched.
2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Discovered in Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel
An interpretation of an ancient shipwreck. Credit: GreekReporter Archive Archaeologists have uncovered a large Roman-era shipwreck in Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel, offering new insight into ancient trade and military supply networks. The discovery dates back about 2,000 years, though researchers say detailed conclusions will take time. The team recovered several hundred ceramic pieces, most of them intact. The collection includes platters, plate…
Underwater archaeological work in Switzerland has revealed that the remains of a Roman cargo from a ship that sank almost two thousand years ago lie at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel.
A cargo of Roman goods was recovered in Lake Neuchâtel. The finds prove that long-distance trade in Europe was well developed in the first century.
An underwater archaeology operation in Switzerland has brought to light, at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel, the remains of a Roman cargo coming from a shipwrecked vessel about two millennia ago. Neuchâtel’s Cantonal Archaeology Office (OARC), in collaboration with the Octopus Foundation and the State Archaeological Service [...]
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