Article: More finds from Bronze Age ship. (shipwreck discovered four years ago off southern Turkey)

More finds from Bronze Age ship

A Bronze Age shipwreck discovered off a rocky cape in southern Turkey more than four years ago (SN: 12/8/84, p. 359) continues to yield important artifacts. The trading vessel, probably of the Canaanite culture, sank around 1600 B.C.

Last summer's expedition to the oldest known shipwreck uncovered two new types of copper ingots, once used to shape bronze tools and weapons, says expedition codirector George F. Bass of Texas A&M University in College Station. One of the ingot styles, with two handles, is portrayed in ...

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