Worlds's oldest shipwreck??

[: Michael-Robert.]

Scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University's Center of Underwater #Archaeology have uncovered what is believed to be the world's oldest #shipwreck used for copper transport, off the coast of #Turkey. This Bronze Age marvel challenges our traditional views on what constitutes a "wreck", with just the scattered copper bars telling a tale of ancient maritime disaster.

World's Oldest Copper Haulage Shipwreck Redefines ‘Wreck’

Scientists from the Center of Underwater Archaeology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, have examined what is believed to be the world's oldest known shipwreck

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[: Michael-Robert.]

 

[Red-Coat]

What a fantastic find, but note the wording that it’s the “Oldest Copper Haulage Shipwreck” not the oldest shipwreck.

The initial archaeological report uses the known typology of copper bars as a first stab at dating and puts them at 16th or possibly as early as 17th century BC (ie not earlier than 1700 BC).

The oldest known shipwreck (as far as I know) is the ‘Dokos’ wreck off the coast of southern Greece near the island of Dokos, which has been dated between 2700-2200 BC.

This newly-discovered Turkish site doesn’t really “challenge our views on what constitutes a wreck” or redefine the term. The Grecian Dokos wreck (discovered in 1975) was of the same nature, with all of the organic material long gone and the wreck identified by its cargo of hundreds of clay vases and other ceramic items.

 

[tamrock]

I read about that about a week ago. Pretty interesting glimpse of what some of the world was up to way back then.