Five cargo-laden ancient shipwrecks have been discovered off a small Greek island.
The wrecks were discovered in June near the island of Levitha, according to officials. The most notable find was a wreck containing a shipload of mid-3rd-century B.C. amphorae, or ancient jars, from various locations around the Mediterranean. While some of the amphorae came from Greek Aegean islands such as Knidos Kos and Rhodes, others came from the ancient Phoenician civilization and its city of Carthage in North Africa.
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