Archaeologists Find 2,000 Year-Old Shipwrecks Charged Ketchup


Linguria - Archaeologists discovered a Roman ship that sank 2,000 years ago carrying large payloads ketchup recently.

The present invention successfully performed by Italian archaeologists in offshore Linguria, Northern Italy near Genoa. The ship contains ingredients that were once famous in the Roman empire.

"This remarkable discovery of the first or second century AD," said the head of Simon Trigona search.

"It became one of the five discoveries Roman ship found in the Mediterranean Sea, and the first time around Liguria."

Reporting from News.com.au,, the ship is almost not revealed, if only the fishermen did not find debris container in 2012 ago. After that discovery, archaeologists spent two years looking for shipwrecks that were later found in October last.


According to Discovery, the research of one of the vehicles around 2000-3000 wadah-- --Of found, the ship known to carry garum or kecapikan with sour-sweet flavor that is generally combined by the Romans in all cuisines.

Made from fish entrails, nutritious soy sauce contains sodium glutamate or MSG is commonly used as a salt substitute that expensive at that time.

"This ship is believed to sailing from Rome to a town in Spain called Cadiz-- where garum was produced in bulk. Then drowned on their way home through the coast of Spain, France and Italy due to bad weather," said Trigona.

"The ship sank on the way home, burdened with a load of bottles of ketchup."

Similar findings have also discovered in 2006, Roman shipwrecks found off Italy carrying wheat.

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