Among the objects found during the research project was a prehistoric vessel dating to the third millennium B.C.
Marine archaeologists have identified 10 shipwrecks, including one from the Roman era, in the waters around a Greek island in the Mediterranean.The finds came to light during a multiyear project carried out by a team in collaboration with Greece's National Hellenic Research Foundation and the country's Ministry of Culture.
This vessel is a wooden boat with metal elements, estimated at 82 to 98 feet long.The researchers also made a number of individual, or 'stray,' finds of varying origins and periods, including prehistory, the Classical period, the Hellenistic period , the Roman years , the Byzantine period and even finds from the later medieval and Ottoman periods.
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