Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat

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The chastising letter sent from the Hittite king Suppiluliuma II to Ammurapi of Ugarit near the end of the life of the city, cited above, similarly says, “You have sent a message … to the effect that there is no food in your land.” In another letter, an unnamed king of Ugarit wrote to an unidentified, but probably royal and senior, correspondent, s

Two types of freight appear to have filled those first containers crossing the Atlantic: whiskey on the westbound run, military goods on the voyage to Europe. Liquor exporters had long complained of huge losses to theft on the docks, and convincing them to use containers was not a hard sell.

And, in 2018, yet another Bronze Age shipwreck was discovered, in the same general vicinity as the Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun wrecks. It is known as the Kumluca shipwreck and seems to be several centuries earlier than the others we are discussing here. Preliminary reports, based on the shapes of the copper ingots that have been retrieved so far, i