Cape Gelidonya Wreck

1200 BC27 mBronze Age vessel

LocationTurkey

Year1200 BC

Depth27 m

TypeBronze Age vessel

About Cape Gelidonya Wreck

A late Bronze Age merchant ship carrying copper and tin ingots from Cyprus. First excavated in 1960 using rigorous archaeological methods. The dig proved shipwrecks could be studied as scientific sites.

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