KekovaPottery cargo tentatively dates a wreck to 2700–2400 BC.
It would be the world’s oldest shipwreck, 300 years older than the wreck at Dokos in Greece.
No timbers survive, so archaeologists dated it from large two-handled storage jars embedded in the rocky slope.
Earlier or later dates are possible, the team says.
Hakan Öniz of Akdeniz University in Turkey, who found the wreck in 2024, has yet to publish the results.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- credits Öniz's decades of Antalya coast excavation and local seafarers' clues, with a desert-archaeologist co-author dating the Kekova wreck to 2700-2400 BC
Sources: Phys.org