I'm reading about the Uluburun shipwreck. Found in 1982 near Cyprus by a local sponge diver, it is the oldest found shipwreck in the world which still resembles the original ship and cargo.
It's dated to about 1300 BC, which puts it right in the middle of what we now call "the late bronze age".
Before this ship was discovered, scholars were sceptical about there being much international trade such a long time ago, but the find has changed that thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck
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Here's an amazing detail:
Aboard the ship were many copper ingots. When trying to get these to the surface, they found them to have lost their structural integrity after spending over 3,000 years at the bottom of the sea.
So what they did was inject them with a special glue that hardens under water (!). It took about a year for the glue to settle, but after that they were able to get the copper ingots to the surface in more or less one piece.
https://maritimehistorypodcast.com/ep-016-old-money-the-uluburun-and-gelidonya-wrecks/
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@Tijn must have been low-quality copper. Time to engrave a complaint letter!
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