A recent submerged digging at Turkey ’s Urla Port has uncovered a ship estimated to engagement back 4,000 years , which expert say would make it the oldest sunken ship to have ever been discovered in the Mediterranean — and possibly anywhere .
The precise age of the ship still ask to be confirmed , but that would put it ahead of two other boats in the competition for Earth ’s oldest crash . There ’s the Uluburun wreck , discover off the coast of Kaş , which is around 3,500 year old , and the sink ship of Hatshepsut , the fifth pharaoh of Ancient Egypt ’s 18th dynasty , which is about 3,650 year honest-to-god .
Asreportedby Hurriyet Daily News , the recent find was made by archaeologists from Ankara University ’s Research Center for Maritime Archaeology ( ANKÜSAM ) . The wreck was base at Urla Port , one of Turkey ’s rare submerged mining situation .
According to Hayat Erkanal , the head of Limantepe excavations for the subaquatic ancient metropolis of Klozemenai and director of ANKÜSAM , the port dates back to the seventh century B.C. It was a coastal townsfolk , make believe it the site of many sunken ships from different eras , but an earthquake in the eighth one C go forth the city underwater .
From Hurriyet :
“ If we reassert that the sunken ship [ we have found ] is 4,000 years onetime , it will be a very important milestone for archeology , ” Erkanal said .
Erkanal aver cloth removed from seawater must be cleaned of salt to forbid further decomposition . This appendage is conducted in a large restoration and conservation lab at the of late opened Mustafa Vehbi Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center and Archaeopark . The process of removing a dip ship from the water can take approximately seven to eight years , Erkanal said .
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