SURVEY – Found half a century ago off Agde, it was first studied in detail.
This is the story of a shipwreck whose wreckage has never been found. Of a 2,600-year-old underwater treasure, discovered almost half a century ago but so massive that it had never been the subject of scientific analysis for lack of time and investment enough. And of a confinement which, in March 2020, offered a team of four French and Spanish archaeologists the opportunity to finally overcome it. They published a 338-page book presenting the results of their work (1) with the Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée.
Paradoxically, although it has never been published before, this repository is very famous in the scientific community. “This is the most astonishing discovery known for the periodexplains Jean Guilaine, director of studies at the EHESS, professor of protohistory at the College de France and first signatory. The University of Montpellier was to study it, but the students, the professors succeeded each other without…
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