Lost ships of Rome

Resource Information

The work Lost ships of Rome represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Lost ships of Rome

Statement of responsibility

a Windfall Films production for Thirteen in association with WNET.org and National Geographical Channel

Contributor

• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
• WNET.ORG
• National Geographic Channel (Television network : Washington, D.C.)
• Hartel, Robert
• Schreiber, Liev
• Windfall Films (Firm)
• PBS Distribution (Firm)

Subject

• Documentary television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Shipwrecks -- Rome
• trueUnderwater archaeology
• Ventotene Island (Italy)

Genre

• Documentary television programs
• Nonfiction television programs

Language

eng

Summary

In 2009, a team of marine archaeologists carrying out a sonar survey of the seabed around the remote Italian island of Ventotene made an astonishing discovery. The wrecks of five ancient Roman ships were found in pristine condition, each one fully laden with exotic goods. Remarkably, much of the cargo remained exactly as the ancient Roman crews had loaded it, suggesting that these ships had not capsized but had gone to the bottom of the sea intact and upright

Member of

• Secrets of the dead
• PBS

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Language note

Closed captioned

LC call number

DE61.N3

LC item number

L67 2010

PerformerNote

Narrator, Liev Schreiber

Runtime

60

Series statement

• Secrets of the dead
• PBS

Technique

live action