Watch: OceanX Discovers 1,500-Year-Old Amphora In The Depths Of Malta’s Seas
OceanX is back in the news cycle… but this time, it’s something awesome, and actually related to Malta.
“What started as a routine dive in the Mediterranean Sea became a mission of discovery when a student learning to pilot OceanXplorer’s ROV spotted something unexpected on the seafloor: an ancient amphora,” the company’s social media wrote last night alongside a short video showing what they found.
It turns out that the discovery, made at a staggering depth of 3.5 kilometres, was an amphora made in southern Italy in approximately the fifth century AD. That would make it anywhere between 1,500 and 1,600 years old.
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“It was probably carrying wine when it fell from a ship sailing the same waters that OceanX was studying 1,500 years later,” the company said. Of course, while the amphora was nearly perfectly preserved, the wine inside it has obviously long vanished.
“We immediately reached out to archeologists at Heritage Malta to learn more about what we found, and as it turns out, this one seemingly small artifact has the potential to unlock a trove of information and a broader understanding of human history,” OceanX finished.
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