The Black Sea Yields Ship From Greece in Glory Days

Scientists said yesterday that they had discovered the remains of a 2,400- year-old ship at the bottom of the Black Sea — the oldest shipwreck ever found in the sea and a testament to its role as a vibrant crossroads of ancient commerce.

The ship, laden with amphoras, the clay storage jars of antiquity, apparently sank in about the fourth century B.C., the golden age of the Greek city-states. One amphora held the bones of a six- to seven-foot-long freshwater catfish that had been dried and cut into steaks, a popular food in ancient Greece.
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