Image: New findings have emerged from the ongoing excavations at the Kizlan Ottoman Shipwreck off the coast of Datca, Mugla, shedding light on artifacts linked to the Ottoman Empire, Türkiye, September 21, 2024. (AA Photo)
By Newsroom with AA
Türkiye is internationally known for ancient cities, Byzantine monuments and Ottoman landmarks, yet some of its most significant archaeological evidence remains hidden beneath the sea, where hundreds of shipwrecks are helping researchers piece together ancient trade routes linking Anatolia with the Aegean, Levant and Egypt.
More than 430 shipwrecks have already been documented along Türkiye’s Mediterranean coast alone, according to Hakan Oniz, an underwater archaeologist at Akdeniz University in Antalya.
The number of documented shipwrecks is “amazing,” Oniz said, and that’s true not only for Türkiye but worldwide.
With more than 8,300 kilometers of coastline facing the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black seas, Türkiye sits across maritime corridors that carried merchants, raw materials and luxury goods for thousands of years.
Read the full article on Türkiye Today:
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/beneath-turkiyes-seas-shipwrecks-rewrite-ancient-mediterranean-history-3229453?s=1
