Ancient Cargo Details Black Sea Trade

newsday.com ^ | 16 Jan 03 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[RightWhale]

WASHINGTON -- Writers in antiquity tell of dried fish, a staple of the ancient Greek diet, being imported from great distances. Now there's evidence of just how far -- from Crimea, in what is now Ukraine. An amphora, or clay jar, located at the site of the oldest shipwreck yet found in the Black Sea contained fish bones, believed to be from fish being shipped to Greece from Crimea on the north coast of the Black Sea.

[RightWhale]

The amphora containing the fish, over 3 feet tall

Good-sized fish

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Old stuff

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