Ancient cargo provides evidence of Black Sea trade in antiquity
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
WASHINGTON Writers in antiquity tell of dried fish, a staple of the ancient Greek diet, being imported from great distances. Now theres 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.