List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini
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.
- 3rd century BC
- Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 BC.[1]
- 4th century BC
- Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus.[2]
- Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC.
- Porticello wreck – 400 BC.[1]
- 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.[3]
- 5th century BC
- 6th century BC
- Giglio Island shipwreck – 600BC.[4]
- 7th century BC
- Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta.[5]
- 10th to 20th century BC
- The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.
- 20th century BC onwards
- Dokos shipwreck – 2700–2200 BC.
References
- 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.
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