Roman warship pulled from mud graveyard in Pisa

Sunday, January 5, 2003

PISA, Italy -- Archaeologists have raised a 2,000-year-old Roman ship from a muddy former riverbed packed with more than a dozen ancient boats just a short walk from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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