Posted on 04/12/2006 7:36:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The ship had a cargo hold filled with ceramic jars, some -- and perhaps all -- of them filled with salt fish. It probably left from a seaport in what is now Turkey and sailed northwest through the Black Sea to the Crimea to pick up its load. Then, for unknown reasons, it sank in 275 feet of water off the present-day Bulgarian coast, coming softly to rest on a carpet of mud. Last week, archaeologists announced they had found the long-lost vessel. Sunk sometime between 490 B.C. and 280 B.C., it is the oldest wreck ever found in the Black Sea... Sinop is 180 miles due south of the Crimea, and team archaeologist Fredrik T. Hiebert, from the University of Pennsylvania, suggested that the lure of larger profits would have caused ancient mariners to eschew coast-hugging in favor of the riskier straight shot over the Black Sea's 6,000-foot-deep abyss. Along that route, he theorized, the team would find an archaeological treasure trove... At a water depth of only 275 feet, however, there was no sign of the ship's wooden hull, which had been eaten by shipworms. Still, the team was optimistic that much of the shipwreck may remain intact where it had been covered with mud.
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