Roman shipwreck filled with ancient treasures discovered off Greek island of Kassos

Tornos News ^ | Thursday, January 21, 2021 | TornosNews.gr

[SunkenCiv]

[dynachrome]

“amphorae”

The wine should be well aged now.

[Skywise]

Found 400,000 more Biden votes.

[Viking2002]

'The wine should be well aged now.'

Or some first-press olive oil that would make mothwatering dolmas............!

[JonPreston]

Bkm

[HKMk23]

Touché

[Colt1851Navy]

Now they can close the insurance claim once and for all.

[BenLurkin]

Very cool.

[SunkenCiv]

[mass55th]

"The wine should be well aged now."

That, or olive oil.

[Organic Panic]

When finding a sunken treasure tell no one until you have melted down the gold and hidden it in your back yard.

[GOP Poet]

lol

[Fresh Wind]

Broken amphorae are not what I would consider “treasures”.

[Bookshelf]

The mention of “Guadalquivir (1st to 3rd century AD)” makes no sense as the placename comes from Wadi al Kebir in Arabic.

[SunkenCiv]

Waaah.

[SunkenCiv]

If I were pathologically self-centered, that’s what I’d do.

[SunkenCiv]

Ancient Athens held an annual (?) vote about banishing someone for ten years.

Themistocles had led the years-long campaign to save Athens and Greece in general from conquest by the Persians.

Many in attendance couldn’t read.

Some helpful person inscribed Themistocles’ name on the ‘ballots’ and handed them out to attendees.

https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/europe/greece-museums/athens-museums/museum-of-the-ancient-agora/ostracon-of-themistocles/

[Red Badger]

There sure were a lot of shipwrecks back then. Even St. Paul’s ship was wrecked in a storm, on his way to Rome.

Lloyd’s of London must have been bankrupt........................

[SunkenCiv]

In the book I’ve been reading, The Roman Empire in the Indian Ocean, I’ve learned that the underwriters of the rather massive seagoing commerce assumed a certain level of loss, they didn’t have insurance companies back then, per se, but Emperor Claudius covered costs (including lost cargo aboard ships that went down) to ensure the grain supply reached Rome.

LGY is down a nickel before market open, btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farasan_Islands#History

[Verginius Rufus]

Kasos is about 35 miles east of the eastern end of the island of Crete (closer to Karpathos).