An old popular saying in Mallorca says that

"the sea makes a hole and a lid"

.

It is an atavistic warning for locals and strangers on an island accustomed to drownings, shipwrecks, and bodies engulfed by the sea.

For the inhabitants of the archipelago, the sea knows how to annihilate without leaving a trace.

And seventeen centuries ago, a

Roman ship seeking refuge

on the southern coast of the island suffered it in its own frames.

The ship was twelve meters long and came from Carthage N

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