Divers Uncover World’s Largest Late Roman Hoard with 50,000 Coins Hidden Beneath the Mediterranean

Divers Uncover World’s Largest Late Roman Hoard with 50,000 Coins Hidden Beneath the Mediterranean

The calm waters near Sardinia’s northeastern coast concealed an extraordinary archaeological cache until a diver’s chance encounter exposed a glint beneath the seagrass. What followed was not an isolated artifact but the beginning of a coordinated underwater recovery operation, revealing tens of thousands of Roman coins lying across a stretch of shallow seabed near Arzachena. Initial assessments reported an extensive dispersal pattern in the san…