Byzantine Shipwreck with Gold Treasures Discovered Off the Croatian Coast
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It is the largest find of gold objects in the Mediterranean Sea area to date, opening a new window into the history of Byzantium.
In front of the Croatian island of Mljet, underwater archaeologists have recovered more than 40 gold objects from a Byzantine shipwreck. Among them there are four elaborately decorated golden belt sets, a jewel decorated with gemstones and a golden seal ring with the image of an emperor. The findings shed a new light on a ship that went down in the Adriatic about 1300 years ago. The wreck is located at Polače on Mljet at a depth of about 32 to 4…
A Byzantine wreck resting near the island of Mljet, Croatia, contained more than 600 grams of gold, belt ornaments inlaid with precious stones.
At the end of July 2026, the Croatian Conservation Institute made public the results of nine excavation campaigns on a shipwreck cast near the island of Mljet, in the Adriatic, around the year 700. The ships of this period left few written traces, and their precious metal cargoes have almost all disappeared. The Byzantine treasure raised from the bottom is an exceptional one, with four belts of ruby and emerald-set appearances and a ring engrave…
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