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Forty metres beneath the Portofino Marine Protected Area, Italian police divers and archaeologists just relocated a lost Roman site. Nine Dressel 1 amphoras — ancient wine jars — still embedded in the seabed where they sank over two thousand years ago. The site had been missing since 1960. The full story is on the channel. #RomanShipwreck #UnderwaterArchaeology #Portofino

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00:00Forty meters beneath the Portofino marine protected area, Italian police divers and archaeologists just relocated a lost Roman site.
00:09Nine Dressel-One amphoras, ancient wine jars, still embedded in the seabed where they sank over 2,000 years ago.
00:16Two exposed jars were recovered for protection.
00:19These jars date to the late 2nd, early 1st century BC, the Roman Republic's wine trade with southern Gaul.
00:26The site had been missing since 1960, the full story is on the channel.

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