Older than the Great Pyramid: a Bronze Age wreck off Türkiye is the oldest shipwreck ever found

When the Great Pyramid was rising in Egypt, a flat-bottomed trading vessel sank off the coast of what is now Türkiye — and it has waited 4,400 to 4,700 years to be found. Scientists from Akdeniz University located the wreck by sonar in 2024, resting with about 18 intact amphorae (clay cargo jars) and three stone anchors still beside the hull; most wrecks in these waters are Roman or Byzantine, a mere 1,500 to 2,000 years old. Türkiye's culture minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy shared video of the site this week, giving the world its first look at a ship that sailed before Stonehenge was finished.