BURGAS, BULGARIA—According to a report in The Sofia Globe, more than 100 pieces of glass, fragments of an iron anchor chain, and ceramics were recovered from Chengene Skele Bay in Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast region by a team of researchers led by Ivan Hristov of Bulgaria’s National History Museum. The glass is thought to have been cargo on a ship that sank during a storm. Although it is still being analyzed, the glass is currently thought to have been produced in a workshop on the Venetian island of Murano in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. To read about a 2,400-year-old Greek merchant ship found in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria, go to “Ancient Shipwreck,” one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2018.
Possible Venetian Glass Discovered in Bulgaria
News July 12, 2024
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