It wasn’t exactly your typical day at the beach: Ami Eshel, a member of Kibbutz Ma’agan Micha’el, located along Israel’s Mediterranean coast about 20 miles south of Haifa, spotted a pile of rocks while swimming in shallow water. On closer inspection he noticed pieces of wood and some pottery sherds. Had he stumbled upon the remains of a ship? Eshel alerted the Israel Antiquities Authority, whose marine experts soon confirmed his hunch: The remains were indeed part of an ancient shipwreck. The ship’s remains, thanks to having been mostly buried under a huge pile of rocks (which had served […]