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Divers discovered the ship in the 1960s and have since recovered items like timber and figure heads but this time they found spices, like saffron, peppercorn, and ginger. >> to find spices like this in one sample is quite remarkable. if we look at the exotic spices it's quite -- it's very unique. saffron, particularly. >> researcher michael larson says this is the only excavation area he knows about where archaeologists have discovered delicate saffron threads. these spices could have come from the far east but remained well preserved in the frigid water. >> the baltic is strange. it's low oxy...