Ancient Greek Wreck Found in Black Sea

Sean Markey. National Geographic News. 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.