Uluburun shipwreck

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Uluburun ("Grand Cape" in Turkish) is a Late Bronze Age underwater archaeological site, located in the Mediterranean Sea south of Kaş, in Turkey where a shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BC was discovered. The sunken ship, approximately 15 meters long and carrying a cargo of over 20 tons, was lying at a depth of over 40 meters at the time of its discovery. The shipwreck was discovered in the summer of 1982 by Mehmed Çakir, a local sponge diver from Yalıkavak, a village near Bodrum, and was subsequently excavated, from 1984 to 1994. It yielded a large quantity of very diverse objects. Its main cargoes were ingots of copper and tin (for bronze making), jars of terebinth resin, painted ceramics, and raw glass. But it also yielded various luxury items, personal effects, and utilitarian objects. At the time of its sinking, the ship was sailing from the east, probably the Levant (Near East) and/or Cyprus, westward toward the Aegean Sea, likely toward a city of the Mycenaean civilization...

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