Ancient Roman Booty

Found things are great! Imagine coming across sunken treasure. Mostly we would want it to contain gold. It would be disappointing to discover it held a cargo of lead.

The lead found in an ancient Roman ship actually has an unexpected value. It is less radioactive than lead found on the surface today. This allows it to be used in quantum research.

Those Roman sailors could not have known their cargo would be more valuable because of the shipwreck.

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