Dive into the Classical world via the remains of a mysterious merchant ship that dates all the way back to 5BC as Greece launches its first underwater museum.

Some of Greece's vast heritage of ancient shipwrecks are accessible to the public (divers and non-divers) for the first time ever in a series of underwater museums. The first opened on August 3, allowing visitors to explore the ‘Peristera shipwreck’, which has been at the bottom of the Aegean Sea for more than two millennia after it sank in the 5th century BC near the northern Greek island of Alonissos. After a fisherman discovered remnants of the ship's cargo in 1985 it has remained off-limits to the public but now visitors can explore it by sea or by virtual reality.