Ancient ‘Shipwreck Graveyard’ with Tons of Loot Found in the Aegean Sea


-- Vintage News, --September 29, 2019

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The Davey Jones locker of the Mediterranean has been found with the discovery of this shipwreck graveyard. In ancient times, the Aegean Sea was a common trade route linking the Greeks to other ports in the Mediterranean and as far away as Egypt and Spain. Located between Asia Minor and Greece, it is an extension of the Mediterranean Sea peppered with islands that form an Archipelago. There are seven groups of islands: the Thracian Sea group, the east Aegean group, the Northern Sporades, the Cyclades, the Saronic Islands, the Dodecanese group, and Crete. The island of Levitha is in the Dodecanese region and has an area of about six square miles. The sea around the island is rough with currents that are called the “euripus phenomenon”, a term coined by Aristotle according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. -- More...

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