In Crimea, the divers found a sunken ancient galley at the bottom of the Black sea. Experts believe that an ancient artifact may be of historic value on a global scale.

In Crimea, near Balaklava, divers found at the depth of 120 meters sunken galley beginning of our era, RIA Novosti reported citing its own anonymous source in the government of Sevastopol. Archaeologists believe that the ancient artifacts that will soon rise from the sea day, may have historical value on a world scale, because such findings are rare.

A unique finding was discovered by members of the club of deep-sea research "Rostov-dive", informs TV channel "Star". Divers is not the first time you notice at the bottom of the sea valuable archaeological things.

It is known that divers took photos of the old ship, which shows that it was located under a thick layer of silt. Taking into account the opinion of experts from Chersonesos reserve, this is what has allowed the water to the vessel to be well preserved. Experts believe that found the galley is a large Byzantine ship length of 125 meters, which sank due to unknown causes. Aboard ship discovered hundreds of ancient vessels, many of them whole. Most likely, the ship was carrying oil and wine.

After the discovery of the artifact, the Manager of the club "Rostov-dive" Roman Dunaev resorted to the Ministry of defence and the Russian geographical society with the desire to organize a joint expedition by the rise of historical value. "Our objective is to save this object to protect from illegal lift," he declared. As a result, 10 June 2015 will be an operation on the exploration and ascent of the day on the sea of ancient relics. The professionals will have to determine exactly is in the bottom 1 or 2 ships, the approximate year of the crash and the cause of death.

The event will involve the black sea fleet and the Russian geographical society. Antique galley will pick up on dry land 6 underwater vessels and the robot "Panther ". The precedent of the expedition and approved by the chief of Department of information support of the Russian black sea fleet captain 1st rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev. "The operation is already planned, the ships and equipment in readiness," he said.
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