grimcrazy

I read that Diocletian killed Roman commerce by setting artificially low prices for the sale of goods - why would you keep a business if you couldn't make any profit? has anybody read anything about Roman revenues - where did the Empire get its money from?

I think the shipwreck data is originally from the 1980s. Wasn't there a problem that medieval ships used barrel containers and early Roman ships carried a lot of pottery amphoras as cargo? So early Roman shipwrecks are a lot easier to find and date?