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Article: ANCIENT CARGO EVIDENCE OF BLACK SEA TRADE.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2003
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Byline: Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press
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.
The discovery off the coast of Bulgaria was announced recently by undersea explorer Robert Ballard of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Conn. Ballard is best known for finding ...