Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said that this is “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.”

According to the BBC, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vessels called amphorae. The boat itself is nearly 70 feet long and 20 feet wide, and was discovered at a depth of 150 feet.