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Roman Shipwreck Carrying Ancient Garum Sauce Discovered in Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea. Credit: Alf van Beem / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain A Roman merchant shipwreck carrying one of antiquity’s most prized foods, garum sauce, has been discovered in the Ionian Sea. Marine archaeologists identified the shipwreck in June 2025 on the seabed along a major maritime corridor used during the Roman Imperial period. Researchers say the vessel was a large oneraria, a type of Roman cargo ship designed to transport heavy l…
An archaeological expedition developed from a routine voyage: police divers discovered an ancient Roman ship before Gallipoli. It had apparently loaded amphorae with a special sauce.
The discovery took place in June 2025 in the course of normal activities of control at sea conducted by the Guardia di Finanza with the use of sophisticated instruments that have signalled an anomaly on the bottom. Only today the news of the important finding has been diffused to protect the exhibit.
A boat of the fourth century after Christ coming from the coast of Africa and sunk in the Ionian Sea was found six months ago: a find kept secret to protect the amphorae and the precious cargo, forerunner of the casting of anchovies.
Under the relentless transparency of the Ionian Sea, a few miles from the coast of the Italian town of Gallipoli on the coast of the Gulf of Tarento, the property of a large Roman oneerary ship, an authentic beast of burden of Antiquity, preserved exceptionally on the seabed next to [...]
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