The 2,000-year-old 'supertanker'
- On 07/06/2008
- In Underwater Archeology
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By Michael Theodoulou
Two years ago, a Cypriot diver was stunned by a chance find: hundreds of ancient ceramic wine jars, rising from a featureless expanse of flat, desert-like seabed off Cyprus's southern coast.
Together they formed the shape of a ghostly ship, still submerged beneath the sands.
It now appears that what the diver discovered was a supertanker of its time, and the biggest and probably oldest wreck ever found in the island's waters.
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