Spanish Archaeologists Plan Rescue of 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician Shipwreck

Spanish Archaeologists Plan Rescue of 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician Shipwreck
Divers from Valencia University map and assess the state of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician vessel that is submerged 60 meters from the beach of Mazarron in Spain on June 20, 2023. Jose A Moya/Regional Government of Murcia/Handout via Reuters
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MADRID—A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it from the sea before a storm destroys it forever.

The eight-meter-long Mazarron II, named after the municipality in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia where it was found off the coast, is a unique piece of ancient maritime engineering.