World's first Islamic wreck found 42 years ago
The world's first Islamic wreck was found in the Aegean Sea on January 2, 1979, as a result of the five-year joint work of Turkish and American archaeologists. It is estimated that the ship, which surprised the scientific world as the oldest known ship wreck in the world, dates back to 2 thousand BC.
The world's first Islamic wreck was found in the Aegean Sea on January 2, 1979, as a result of the five-year joint work of Turkish and American archaeologists. It is estimated that the ship, which surprised the scientific world as the oldest known ship wreck in the world, dates back to 2 thousand BC. Located very countless shipwrecks in coastal Turkey, it is hosting numerous civilizations. The world's first Islamic wreck was found in the Aegean Sea, as a result of the five-year joint work of Turkish and American archaeologists. It is estimated that the ship, which surprised the scientific world as the oldest known ship wreck in the world, dates back to 2 thousand BC. In addition, the first bronze age amphora of the world, which is in a single piece and intact, was removed from the 4,000-year-old wreck. The historical monument, which is called the spouted pitcher for the first time in the world, came from the Hisarönü beach for the first time. Thus, the shipwreck of Uluburun, which was dated to 1300 BC and found in Kas in 1982, handed over the throne to the Hisarönü wreck.
10 NEW WRECKS DISCOVERED
To determine the number of shipwrecks along the coast of Turkey and history hosted by the University of the studies initiated on September 9 to search for clues about the civilization was the scene of a discovery worldwide. Scientists who conducted research on the coast from Muğla's Datça Peninsula to Antalya with the STS Bodrum School Ship belonging to Dokuz Eylül University Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology discovered 10 new shipwrecks. However, the remains of ships found in Hisaronu, Marmaris, 50 meters off the coast, at a depth of 20-35 meters, changed the underwater archeology history of the world. Because the ship was determined to be the oldest wreck ever found in the world. Over 100 dives were made in 35 different areas in the Aegean Sea. Discovered in the Gulf of Hisarönü out of 10 shipwrecks found in dives, it was dated to the Bronze Age, 4 thousand years ago. The shipwreck, which has the title of the oldest shipwreck ever found in the world, belongs to 2000 years before Christ. A mixture of tin and copper (bronze) was used in the Bronze Age, when many hand tools and items could not be made for this reason that iron was not used by human beings yet.
