Ancient Greek Wreck found in Black Sea,Columbia

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 Plato when Athens reached the height of power and Zeus was believed to rule the celestial firmament.
The shipwreck is the oldest ever found in the Black Sea. It joins a relatively small handful of other known shipwrecks of the Greek period.
The 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 Bulgaria Academy of Science’s Institute for Oceanology, in Varna.

The expedition was the latest in a series of expeditions to the Black Sea initiated by National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence and Institute for Exploration president Robert Ballard, the oceanographer and undersea explorer famous for his discovery of the Titanic and other historic shipwrecks. Since 1997, Ballard has worked with archaeologist Frederik Hiebert at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia to investigate the ancient cultures and maritime trade routes of the Black Sea. Ballard and Hiebert joined Coleman in making today’s announcement.