• 03/14/2025

Underwater excavation reveals 1100-year-old ship carrying olive oil from Gaza

Jerusalem Post

 Underwater excavation reveals 1100-year-old ship carrying olive oil from Gaza. (photo credit: Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation and Restoration at Akdeniz University)
Since the Bronze Age, for about 5,000 years, olives have been the indispensable food of sailors in the Mediterranean.

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-845731