Angela
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“This discovery has allowed us to establish with certainty that Neapolis was a major centre for the manufacture of garum and salt fish, probably the largest centre in the Roman world,” Mr Fantar added.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...tsunami-neapolis-nabuel-cathage-a7924181.html
Submerge cities are always interesting to look at. Considering Neapolis was such an important city; the Romans must have really spurned them. Since they sided with Carthage in the third Punic War, to have recorded so little about them as the article suggests.
There were some amazing pictures taken from that submerged Roman site at Baiae, near Naples, that were taken recently.
how did it become submerged?
Because the coast subsided, largely due to local volcanic activity, most of Baiae is now under water in the Bay of Naples.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiae
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