This was not your average day of diving. Divers Ran Feinstein and Ofer Ra‘anan were checking out the underwater ruins of the ancient port city of Caesarea Maritima in Israel when they made a spectacular discovery: a 1,600-year-old trove of bronze statues, coins and other finds that once comprised the cargo of a merchant ship! Feinstein and Ra‘anan reported what they found to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which subsequently led to an underwater salvage survey. The Late Roman cargo recovered by the IAA archaeologists includes a bronze lamp depicting the sun god Sol, a figurine of the moon […]
