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Archaeologists say they found the oldest ship ever discovered underwater: some of its jars still hold what they carried 4700 years ago

The ship sank off the coast of Turkey around the time Egypt’s first pyramids were being built. Its wood is gone, but its cargo survived.

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Archaeologists say they found the oldest ship ever discovered underwater: some of its jars still hold what they carried 4700 years ago
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The ship sank off the coast of Turkey around the time Egypt’s first pyramids were being built. Its wood is gone, but its cargo survived.

  • Near Kekova Island, off Turkey’s southern coast, archaeologists have found the remains of a ship that they believe sank up to 4700 years ago...
  • At a depth of nearly 100 feet, the team led by underwater archaeologist Hakan Öniz found more than 30 large ceramic jars, known as amphorae, along with three stone anchors
  • To date the find, the researchers compared the decorations on the jars with others found in Egypt and the Middle East that are known to be 4400 to 4700 years old. “We can definitely say our wreck is early Bronze Age
  • Until now, the title of the world’s oldest known shipwreck belonged to one found near the Greek island of Dokos, dated to about 4200 years ago

The ship sank off the coast of Turkey around the time Egypt’s first pyramids were being built. Its wood is gone, but its cargo survived.

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