Black Sea Starts to Yield a Rich Ancient History From: The Washington Post | Date: January 20, 2003| Author: Guy Gugliotta | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The ship had a cargo hold filled with ceramic jars, some -- and perhaps all -- of them filled with salt fish. It probably left from a seaport in what is now Turkey and sailed northwest through the Black Sea to the Crimea to pick up its load.

Then, for unknown reasons, it sank in 275 feet of water off the present-day Bulgarian coast, coming softly to rest on a carpet of mud.

Last week, archaeologists announced they had found the long-lost vessel. Sunk sometime between 490 B.C. an...

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