4,700-Year-Old Shipwreck Off Turkey May Be the Oldest Ever Found

October 14, 2026 — Divers working off Kekova Island found more than 30 ceramic amphorae and three stone anchors nearly 100 feet down: cargo from a ship that sank up to 4,700 years ago, around the time Egypt’s first pyramids went up. Some jars still held residue of what they carried, and the research team calls the wreck a “time capsule” of Bronze Age trade.

— Smithsonian Magazine