Photo: Black Sea MAP More than two kilometers under the surface ... "This will change our understanding of shipbuilding and seafaring in the ancient world," Adams said in a press release.

And yet few international travelers make the journey to, much less know anything about, Turkey’s Black Sea region ... one of the world’s oldest monasteries and a city mentioned in the ancient ...

creating the Black Sea. While studying these environmental changes, the MAP team’s remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) stumbled on the first of the wrecks that lay untouched on the bottom.

We imagine the ancient world as one made of stone ... University of Southampton Archaeology Professor Jon Adams, who led the Black Sea MAP project, was stunned. An intact shipwreck of this ...