Shipwreck Tag

Area X at Megiddo, at the end of the 2022 excavation season, view to the southeast. Credit: The Megiddo Expedition.

ANE Today’s editor shares some of the most exciting archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs of 2025.

The typical vertical preservation of ancient wood-planked hulls in the Mediterranean Sea is seen in the Tantura B shipwreck, Israel, with only the lower parts of the structure surviving because of its burial in sediment soon after deposition. Early ninth-century AD. Photo: S. Wachsmann.

January 5, 2022

On the Potential of Deep-Submergence Archaeology

January 2022 | Vol. 10.1 By Shelley Wachsmann You are broken by the seas in the depths of the waters. Ezekial 27:34 Ezekiel had it right. Ships do sink in deep water. Common wisdom

Shipwreck Tag

Top Archaeological Discoveries of 2025

On the Potential of Deep-Submergence Archaeology