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  • Ancient Cargo Details Black Sea Trade

    01/16/2003 4:23:28 PM PST · by RightWhale · 3 replies · 325+ views
    newsday.com ^ | 16 Jan 03 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
    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.