Archeology of a shipwreck

In the first century BC, a Roman ship sailing along the Costa Brava (Girona) was surprised by a storm, hit the Formigues Islands and was shipwrecked. Its remains were preserved intact at 45 m depth for 2,000 years. The Center of Underwater Archeology of Catalonia (CASC) carries out an excavation campaign to study the loading of hundreds of amphoras and to understand the construction process of the ship. Until now it was believed that Roman ships could not navigate the Atlantic, the analysis of thousands of amphoras shows that they maintained maritim routes to Britain and Germany.
The following spoke: Gustau Vivar, CASC director, Rut Geli, CASC archaeologist, Caterina Aguer, restorer of CASC, Xavier Rubio, professor of archeology at the University of Edinburgh and Pere Izquierdo, archaeologist of the Sitges Museums.