List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini
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The list of shipwrecks before Anno Domini includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost before the year AD 1 of the Gregorian calendar.
- 1st century BC
- Mahdia – 80 BC.
- Antikythera wreck – 86 BC.
- 2nd century BC
- Thonis shipwreck – late 2nd century BC. The warship was sunk by debris falling from a temple that collapsed during an earthquake.[1]
- 3rd century BC
- Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 BC.[2]
- 4th century BC
- Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus.[3]
- Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC.
- Porticello wreck – 400 BC.[2]
- A Greek merchant ship with rudder, rowing benches and the contents of the hold still intact was found in the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. – more than 2,400 years old.[4]
- 5th century BC
- Ma'agan Mikha'el shipwreck – 5th century BC.[2]
- Tektas wreck, Turkey – 450-425 BC.[2]
- 6th century BC
- Giglio Island shipwreck – 600 BC.[5]
- 7th century BC
- Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta.[6]
- Bajo la Campana Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Murcia, Spain.
- 10th to 20th century BC
- The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.
- Canaanite shipwreck – c. 1300 BC 90 kilometres (56 mi) off the north coast of Israel, in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 1,800 metres (5,900 ft).[7]
- The Uluburun shipwreck – 1300 BC.
- 20th century BC and earlier
- Dokos shipwreck – 2700–2200 BC.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Underwater archaeologists discover ancient shipwreck in sunken city". Heritage Daily. 22 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d Åkesson, Per. "Wrecks & shipfinds of the Mediterranean". www.abc.se. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ Learn, Joseph Rapp (9 December 2017). "Wayfarers of the ancient world". New Scientist. Vol. 236, no. 3155. p. 12.
- ^ Lettens, Jan. "Oldest intact shipwreck found in the Black Sea". Wrecksite. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ Lienhard, John H. "An Etruscan Wreck". The Engines of Our Ingenuity. University of Houston. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
- ^ "Exploring an Archaic Shipwreck off Xlendi Bay, Gozo". Phoenician Shipwreck Project. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ^ "Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel". BBC News. 20 June 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ Lienhard, John H. "A Minoan Wreck". University of Houston. The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
