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A wooden ship found in the depths of the Black Sea, is more than 2,000 years old, according to experts.
The Roman vessel, dates back to the 2nd or 3rd centuries and could have been used as a merchant ship, senior researcher Viktor Lebedinsky told Russian news agency TASS .
He said: "The discovered vessel, presumably dating back to the 2nd or 3rd centuries, rests at the depth of 85 meters and this is a wooden carcass."
The discovery was made by the Neptune expedition, sponsored by the fund of Russian presidential grants on the project "Crimea, the Crossroads of Civilizations".
The expedition aims to examine various objects already spotted by archaeologists at the Black Sea and search for new artefacts.