Excavations at a Byzantine-era church in the northern Negev desert have revealed 1,500-year-old wall etchings of ships, likely left by Christian pilgrims who had arrived by sea to the Holy Land.

The presence of Ottoman and Byzantine ships highlights the maritime interconnectivity of ancient coastal communities. These findings expand our understanding of the evolution of seafaring ...

presumably Byzantine ships, and a large of number of amphorae and other objects on the seabed. This submergence "is a good occasion to see once again how deep our historical roots are and how deep ...