The 4th-century Roman ship discovered beneath the sands of Les Fontanelles by a local resident swimming at Palma beach in the summer of 2019 concealed a true archaeological treasure: the largest collection of amphorae with inscriptions describing their cargo ever documented in the Mediterranean. The exceptional nature of the site has been revealed as it has been studied, primarily because the goods the ship carried from Carthago Spartaria (around present-day Cartagena) have been preserved as if in a time capsule for over 1,600 years.