2000 Years Old Roman Era Shipwreck Reveals Ancient Medical Secrets

2000 Years Old Roman Era Shipwreck Reveals Ancient Medical Secrets January 8, 2013 3:53 pm est livescience . ancient gray disks loaded with zinc and beeswax found aboard a shipwreck more than 2,000 years old may have been used as medicine for the eyes. A large haul of roman storage containers were found in the wreckage. the wreckage of an ancient roman ship from more than 2,000 years ago has been found off the coast of italy. the cargo ship was.

Ancient Shipwreck Reveals 2 000 Year Old Eye Medicine Live Around 120 b.c.e., the relitto del pozzino, a roman shipping vessel, sank off the coast of tuscany.more than two millennia later, in the 1980s and 90s, a team sent by the archeological. A round tin box holding what may be 2,000 year old tablets from the roman shipwreck relitto del pozzino. (right: contents of the tin box.)(image credit: giachi et al., pnas.) ancient gray disks. Ancient gray disks loaded with zinc and beeswax found aboard a shipwreck more than 2,000 years old may have been used as medicine for the eyes, researchers say. ancient shipwreck reveals 2,000. Roman era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets. a first aid kit found on a 2,000 year old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to.

2 000 Year Old Roman Shipwreck Found In Mediterranean Hollis Ancient gray disks loaded with zinc and beeswax found aboard a shipwreck more than 2,000 years old may have been used as medicine for the eyes, researchers say. ancient shipwreck reveals 2,000. Roman era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets. a first aid kit found on a 2,000 year old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to. The roman vessel may have sunk while transporting glass from the middle east to france. archaeologists have recovered thousands of pieces of glassware—many of them “perfectly preserved. In 2002, alain touwaide came across an article about the discovery, some years before, of a medical kit salvaged from a 2,000 year old shipwreck off the coast of tuscany. divers had brought up a.