Off Türkiye's coast, a 4,700-year-old shipwreck may be the oldest ever found

Nearly 100 feet beneath the Mediterranean off Kekova Island, Türkiye, divers found a cargo that has waited 4,700 years: more than 30 large clay jars called amphorae and three stone anchors, resting where a Bronze Age ship went down around the time Egypt's first pyramids were rising. The wooden hull has long vanished, but the jars — likely carrying olive oil or wine, with traces of their contents still inside — outline the ship on the seafloor. 'These are the oldest known remains of a seagoing ship yet found,' says archaeologist Karin Sowada of Macquarie University, part of the team led by Hakan Öniz of Akdeniz University. A time capsule, opened by patience.