A whole ship, still packed tight, was not brought up. The jars lie on the seabed.
Known. Divers found a merchant wreck whose cargo of jars is still at the site.
The wreck is in the sea off Andros, in Greece, about 40 metres down. It dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BC, about 2,400 years ago. The team estimates 600 to 650 amphorae. Three kinds are linked to Mende, to Peparethos, now called Skopelos, and to routes toward the northern Aegean and the Black Sea. Divers also brought up part of a lead anchor, and they saw stones that may have been ballast.
The page says it is still not known what the jars held, where the voyage began, or whether Athens was the goal.