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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>The shipwreck, located merely 60 meters from Mazarron\u2019s Playa de la Isla, requires immediate attention for preservation. Archaeologists in Spain are racing against time to preserve a 2,500-year-old Phoenician relic, the Mazarron II, situated off Spain\u2019s Murcia coast.<\/p>\n

Threatened by storms, this invaluable antique could suffer irreversible damage. A nine-member team of Spanish archeologists from the University of Valencia-Institute of Nautical Archaeology embarked on an intensive two-week scuba diving operation in June.<\/p>\n

They painstakingly spent 560 hours surveying and documenting the ship\u2019s fragile state, documenting each fissure. Before the year\u2019s end, expert strategies for recovering the shipwreck could be proposed, possibly as early as the following summer.<\/p>\n

The possibility of an intricate procedure of extraction and reassembly of the wreckage, akin to a jigsaw puzzle, is one of the propositions, suggests Carlos de Juan, an archaeologist from the University of Valencia-Institute of Nautical Archaeology who is overseeing the project.<\/p>\n

This implies the preference for an accessible and secure display of the ship over constant anxiety about potential storm-induced damages. The Mazarron II, instrumental in the Phoenician\u2019s Mediterranean trading network, which lasted from 1,500 BC to 300 BC, offers a unique historical perspective.<\/p>\n

Historians have used the vessel, thought to have been built around 580 BC, to study the ancient transportation of metals, notably lead, from the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n

For more than 2,000 years, the shipwreck remained concealed beneath sediment deposits, only to be revealed nearly three decades ago as a result of alterations in sea currents caused by coastal construction.<\/p>\n

The wreck now nestles under approximately 1.7 meters (5.6 ft. ) of the remarkably transparent Mediterranean waters, encircled by a protective barrier of sandbags and a custom-built metal structure.<\/p>\n

However, the protective structure began sinking faster than the wreck itself, posing a potential threat to crush the historical artifact. Therefore, it necessitated a partial removal to ensure the wreck\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mauritius. The shipwreck, located merely 60 meters from Mazarron\u2019s Playa de la Isla, requires immediate attention for preservation. Archaeologists in Spain are racing against time to preserve a 2,500-year-old Phoenician relic, the Mazarron II, situated off Spain\u2019s Murcia coast. Threatened by storms, this invaluable antique could suffer irreversible damage. 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