A diver swimming in the Mediterranean Sea recently happened upon an 1,800-year-old shipwreck off the northwestern coast of Israel.
Although archaeologists knew about the wreck, they didn't know its "exact whereabouts as it was covered by sand," Koby Sharvit, director of the underwater archaeology unit at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said in a statement released Monday (May 15). It's likely that recent storms helped expose the cargo, he added.
