During the survey, an “unusual sight of what seemed to be a large cluster of urns” was discovered, Bahartan said. This turned out to be a “sensational discovery, more than any of us could have imagined,” she added.
Energean then conducted an operation to extract the jars from the wreck – these will be displayed at the newly built Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel in Jerusalem this summer.
Yaakov Sharvit, director of the Maritime Archeology Unit at the antiquities authority, said the ship may have been wrecked by a storm or an encounter with pirates.
“This is the first and earliest shipwreck discovered to date in the deep sea in the eastern Mediterranean,” he said.
Sharvit said the jugs found on board were commercial vessels that would probably have contained oil, wine, or other agricultural products like fruit, indicating that maritime trade took place across the sea.
Previous knowledge of how ships traded suggested that voyages were made from port to port, rather than across open expanses of sea, with those on board still able to see the shore.
“The ship that has just been discovered changes the understanding of sailing in the ancient world,” Sharvit said.
“This is a world-class sensation: The discovery shows the impressive navigational abilities of the ancients – those that made it possible to cross the Mediterranean Sea without any eye contact with the shore – since from this distance you can only see the horizon line,” he added.
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