The destruction of a Roman ship has been excavated in a good condition from the Barbir Bay, Barbir Bay in Croatia. The boat is the first 2th century and is about 12.5 meters (40 feet) long. Many features of the upper work of the ship survived, a rare search in the destruction of ancient ships.
Underwater archaeologists at the International Center for Underwater Archaeological Center in Zadar suffered the first remnants of the ship’s destruction during a Roman era investigation in 2021.
“We reached a piece of wood with an iron nail, which suggests that there may be something else near it. The next year we expanded the search area and realized that it was the destruction of a Roman ship. After four -and -a -half years of research, this last season allowed us to ship the water on the floor.
Hundreds of olives were found on debris, proof that the ship was used for olive transport, perhaps from local agricultural property near the port.
“It is a very precise and stable type of ship’s construction, which is capable of carrying heavy loads and taking long -range ceiling mediums. Such ships were essential for life along with our beaches and islands two thousand years ago.”
The ship cannot be removed due to loss costs and risk, so it will be covered with a geotextile and then will be recovered from the sand protected before its excavation. Archaeologists have well documented its structures and contacts, and thousands of over -leaping images have been drawn from which photographer metric models have been created. Detail data will also be used to reorganize the ship’s 1:10 model to show how it looks when it was intact. The model will provide new information to the researchers about how such utensils were made and visited in ancient.
