Last summer, an oil and gas company was conducting a survey in the waters off Israel's coast when their cameras spotted ...
Their problem was amphorae. They needed millions of the curvy clay jars to ship wine, olive oil, and fish sauce around the empire, and often they didn’t recycle their empties. Sometimes they ...
Monte Testaccio is a hill in Rome that is actually a centuries-old amphorae dump. There is an amazing history to both the hill and the wealth of information it hides. Evidently, it was cheaper to ...