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The Uluburun Shipwreck is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BC, [1] discovered close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand Cape), Turkey, in the Mediterranean Sea. [2] The shipwreck was discovered in the summer of 1982 by Mehmed Çakir, a local sponge diver from Yalıkavak, a village near Bodrum.
The cape is the site of a late Bronze Age shipwreck (c. 1200 BC). In view of the cargo's nature and composition the findings are of a Mycenean Greek provenance. [3] The remains of the ship sat at a depth of about 27 metres (89 ft), [4] on irregular rocky bottom.
Bajo de la Campana Iron Age Shipwreck Excavation (Spain) Battle of Bạch Đằng Research Project (Vietnam) Bay of Lagos Survey (Portugal) Bozburun Byzantine Shipwreck Excavation (Turkey) Burgaz Harbors Research Project (Turkey) Cape Gelidonya Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (Turkey) City Point Shipwreck Survey (United States)
Evidence of tin trade in the Mediterranean can be seen in a number of Bronze Age shipwrecks containing tin ingots such as the Uluburun off the coast of Turkey dated 1300 BC which carried over 300 copper bars weighing 10 tons, and approximately 40 tin bars weighing 1 ton. [44]
Uluburun Late Bronze Age shipwreck, 14th century BC; Cape Gelidonya Late Bronze Age shipwreck, c. 1200 BC; Antikythera c 80-50 BC, includes the astronomical computer, the Antikythera mechanism; Mary Rose, 1545; Vasa, 1628 discovered by Anders Franzén; VOC ship Batavia, 1629; French explorer La Salle's ship La Belle, 1686
Edgerton Alvord Throckmorton (July 30, 1928 – June 5, 1990), known as Peter Throckmorton, was an American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist. [1] [2]He is best remembered for fusing academia, archaeometry, and diving in 1960 to create responsible underwater archaeology: the excavation of the Cape Gelidonya bronze age wreck site.
A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land, the Israel ...
In 1959 Professor Rodney Young, Bass's colleague at the University of Pennsylvania, had learned about an unspoiled Bronze-Age Mediterranean shipwreck site from diver and journalist Peter Throckmorton. Young invited Bass to work on the first expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck.