Amphora

Greece's Culture Ministry says three shipwrecks from ancient and medieval times and large sections of their cargoes have been discovered off the small Aegean island of Kasos.

A statement Monday said an underwater survey that ended last month also located cannons and other scattered finds — possibly from other foundered vessels that have not yet been pinpointed.

Marine archaeologists pull up a net full of ancient ceramic artifacts during a diving expedition at a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera this month. The latest haul of five sandbags, which had been left on the seabed during a previous expedition, included bones, olive kernels, copper nails and a bronze ring. The team also pulled up a basket full of amphora pieces.

Greek police say they have arrested three men on the Aegean island of Kalymnos for allegedly plundering ancient shipwrecks and removing more than two dozen intact pottery vases.

Divers are flocking to the Turkish Mediterranean to feast their eyes on historic amphorae jars buried for thousands of years by age-old shipwrecks.

Officers of the cultural heritage and antiquities department arrested on Thursday a 65-year-old man in Laconia, southeastern Peloponnese, for illegal possession of antiquities and for receiving and handling proceeds of crime.

Three people were arrested on Friday in the southern town of Kyparissia and charged with the  illegal possession of antiquities.

Police said they had received a tip off that the three suspects, 39, 41 and 61,were about to proceed with a pricey sale of around a dozen ancient amphorae and other vessels that served as funeral offerings in Mycenaean-era graves.

When he fashioned his humble amphora some 2,000 years ago, the potter Minodoros could hardly have imagined that his name would be spoken by people living so many centuries later.

Underwater research on the coast of the southern province of Mersin have discovered 18 shipwrecks on a coastline of 100 kilometers. The wreckages date back between 1,000 and 2,700 years.

Members of three international field expeditions that explored the Black Sea between 2015 and 2017 presented the results of their work on Tuesday in the Black Sea port of Burgas.

The Black Sea MAP project, one of the largest maritime archaeological projects ever, revealed 60 well-preserved shipwrecks that illustrate the history of more than two millennia of seafaring.

Walls, building foundations, huge amphorae, paved sections of roads are among the structures and objects that are lying under the sea surface.

The sunken city -a.k.a. the “Atlantis of Argolida”- is extremely extremely close to Epidaurus seaside.

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