Posted on 04/10/2007 10:49:45 AM PDT by blam
2,200-year old amphoras contained wine
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, April 9 (UPI) -- Parts of amphoras believed to be 2,200 years old uncovered in a Bosnia-Herzegovina swamp are suspected to have carried wine, experts said Monday.
Snjezana Vasilj, head of a Bosnian team of archaeologists, said a preliminary analysis showed amphoras, found at what are believed remains of the first-ever discovered Illyrian ships, were used for transporting wine, the Bosnian news agency FENA reported.
Late in March, Vasilj and her team found what they believed were the Illyrian ships in the Desilo location, more than 20 feet under the water level of the Hutovo Blato swamp, near Capljina in southern Bosnia.
The Illyrian ships are believed to have sailed from the Adriatic Sea up the Neretva River carrying merchandise to the inland Balkans.
The Illyrian ships, suspected dating back to the 2nd century B.C., are known to historians only through Greek and Roman legends as their physical existence had never been established, Vasilj said.
Illyrians are considered as the earliest inhabitants of what is today Bosnia-Herzegovina, long before the Roman Empire took control of the Balkans.
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Cloaking Devices are much older than we thought........
Ahh, 194 B.C. that was a good year for the grapes. Nothing like vintage wine.
Obviously this ship had a poor vintage.........or a thirsty crew........
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Didn’t they find a couple of 10,000 year old Phoenician ships loaded with wine amphoras in the late ‘90s? Somewhere off the coast of Israel, I think.
Info bump.
I’m partial to the Chateau Sparta 189 B.C., myself.
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“Hutovo Blato swamp” — what a great name for a swamp, ha ha ha
Illyrian “Box ‘o Wine”.
Is the wine still good (hic)?
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This seems to be the area where the tribe called Daorsi lived in ancient times. I have a book about the Illyrians which shows a coin of the Daorsi which has a representation of a ship on it.
The Liburnians lived a bit further north on the Dalmatian coast--remains of a Liburnian ship have been found.
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