{"id":86,"date":"2009-01-01T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-01-13T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T12:39:46","slug":"ancient-for-greek-at-wreck-is-found-in-black-sea-at-colambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2009\/01\/ancient-for-greek-at-wreck-is-found-in-black-sea-at-colambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greek Wreck found in Black Sea,Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researchers<\/strong> announced today their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/discoveries.htm\"><strong>discovery<\/strong><\/a> of the shipwrecked remains of an ancient trading vessel over 2,300 years old that sank in the <strong>Black Sea<\/strong> off the coast of present-day Bulgaria.<br \/>\nThe vessel dates to the <strong>5th to 3rd century B.C<\/strong>., an era known to scholars as the <strong>classical<\/strong> period of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/underwater_archaeology.htm\"><strong>ancient Greece<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" title=\"Under Water archaeology \" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/image1\/blue sea.jpg \" alt=\"Under Water archaeology\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nthe time of Plato when Athens reached the height of power and Zeus was believed to <strong>rule the celestial firmament<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe shipwreck is the oldest ever found in the Black Sea. It joins a relatively small handful of other known shipwrecks of the <strong>Greek period<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe first thing saw was this pile of amphora. There were probably 20 to 30 jars that were exposed on the surface layer.I knew right away that it was probably ancient, said Dwight Coleman, a marine geologist at the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut.. Coleman served as chief scientist of the expedition together with Petko Dimitrov of the <strong>Bulgaria Academy of Science&#8217;s<\/strong> Institute for Oceanology, in Varna.<\/p>\n<p>The expedition was the latest in a series of expeditions to the Black Sea initiated by National <strong>Geographic Society <\/strong>explorer-in-residence and Institute for Exploration president Robert Ballard, the <strong>oceanographer<\/strong> and undersea explorer famous for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/computational_archaeology.htm\">discovery<\/a> of the Titanic and other historic shipwrecks. Since 1997, Ballard has worked with archaeologist Frederik Hiebert at the University of <strong>Pennsylvania&#8217;s Museum<\/strong> of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia to investigate the ancient cultures and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/maritime_archaeology.htm\"><strong>maritime<\/strong> <\/a>trade routes of the Black Sea. Ballard and Hiebert <strong>joined Coleman<\/strong> in making today&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers announced today their discovery of the shipwrecked remains of an ancient trading vessel over 2,300 years old that sank in the Black Sea off the coast of present-day Bulgaria. The vessel dates to the 5th to 3rd century B.C., an era known to scholars as the classical period of ancient Greece the time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-archaeology","tag-ancient-greek-wreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}