Archaeologists say a 10m trade ship wrecked off Kekova Island, Turkey, is the oldest known shipwreck, at 4,400 to 4,700 years old. No wood survived for radiocarbon testing, so the date rests on amphora style, and residue in the jars may come from reuse.
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Archaeologists and Murujuga rangers have documented two seabed sites off Western Australia that were drowned by rising seas at least 9,000 years ago. More than 20 stone artefacts were recovered, and the study says they could be considerably older.
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IEASM divers recovered a bronze signet ring engraved with Alexandria's Pharos lighthouse from sunken Antirhodos, the first ring of its kind found. The team links it to the palace offices that oversaw the lighthouse, though that reading rests so far on one worn ring and the spot where it lay.
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Saxony-Anhalt's heritage office recovered a 1.6-metre post and split boards about 10,500 years old from Lake Arendsee that may come from Mesolithic buildings. Only permanent buildings would put settled structures here about 3,000 years before the region's first farms, and the timber cannot yet show that.
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Divers search Lake Issyk-Kul's floor for the edge of a Silk Road town drowned about 800 years ago
Some 20 scientists funded by the Russian Academy of Sciences are diving on a Silk Road town that sank into Lake Issyk-Kul an estimated 800 years ago. What it adds to Central Asian history hangs on lab dates for remains that have proved hard to date.
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