Deep Water Archaeology in Italy and in the Tyrrhenian Sea

The paper presents the history of the research in Deep water archaeology in Italy and the recent activities carried out by Fondazione Azionemare in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Through a preliminary presentation of some shipwrecks dated to the Roman period, discovered by the Fondazione Azionemare and investigated, thanks also the photogrammetry, with the archaeologists of the Venetian university, the article analysis the characteristics and the potentialities of these contexts which present an excellent level of conservation.