More than seventeen centuries after a Roman-era trading ship carrying a cargo of oil, wine and fish sauces sank off Mallorca, its treasure has been uncovered near a tourist beach.
Archaeologists have recovered 300 amphorae, a form of ancient ceramic jar or vase, decorated with more than 100 painted inscriptions, as well as coins and shoes from the wreck, that date from the 4th century.
The cache was found by chance by a local while swimming off Playa de Palma, the island’s capital city, in 2019. “We found a ship that was mainly carrying a cargo of oil, with oil amphorae produced in the Cartagena area, fish sauces and wine,” Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, an archaeologist from the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies,
