Roman Shipwreck Preserves Ancient Food

In 2012, police divers off the Italian town of Varazze near Genoa used a remotely operated vehicle to locate a 2,000 year old Roman cargo shipwreck buried in seabed mud. The wreck held around 200 clay jars, or amphorae, many of which appeared still sealed and protected by the sediment. Tests on some of the amphorae showed that they contained pickled fish, grain, wine, and oil, meaning parts of the ship's food cargo had survived intact on the seafloor for two millennia.

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