Thousands of Fancy Dishes Have Survived a 2,100-Year-Old Shipwreck
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A Mediterranean shipwreck has yielded 6,511 ceramic plates, bowls, and trays in 122 different forms and sizes, packed in wooden crates with clay for protection and kept pristine by depth of 125-150 feet. The ceramics were made in ancient Rhosus (now Arsuz, Turkey) and were likely bound for Rome when the ship struck a shoal during a storm around 2,100 years ago.
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