Maritime archaeologists accidentally discovered 40 ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea

Maritime archaeologists accidentally discovered 40 ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea

A group of maritime archeologists studying sea levels in the Black Sea have uncovered 41 shipwrecks this year as a “complete bonus.” The Black Sea Maritime Archeology Project has been trawling the seabed to understand how quickly the water level rose after the last Ice Age, 20,000 years ago. But their surveys ended up uncovering…