The Alkedo, a Roman military surveillance craft, sank in the early first century A.D. It is now on display in the Museum of the Ancient Ships of Pisa.

This mysterious graveyard of shipwrecks was found far from sea

In 1998, the first of many Roman-era ships was unearthed in the ‘Pompeii of the sea.’ Archaeologists wanted to know how they got there.

The Alkedo, a Roman military surveillance craft, sank in the early first century A.D. It is now on display in the Museum of the Ancient Ships of Pisa.
Museum of Ancient Ships, Pisa
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