The list of shipwrecks before Anno Domini includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost before the year

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of the

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. ; 1st century BC *

Mahdia Mahdia ( ar, المهدية ') is a Tunisian coastal city with 62,189 inhabitants, south of Monastir and southeast of Sousse. Mahdia is a provincial centre north of Sfax Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located ...

– 80 BC. *

Antikythera wreck The Antikythera wreck ( gr, Ναυάγιο των Αντικυθήρων) is a Roman-era shipwreck dating from the second quarter of the first century BC."''The Antikythera Shipwreck. The Ship, The Treasures, The Mechanism. National Archaeologic ...

– 86 BC. ; 2nd century BC * Thonis shipwreck – late 2nd century BC. The

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was sunk by debris falling from a temple that collapsed during an

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. ; 3rd century BC * Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 BC. ; 4th century BC * Found in the

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on the

Eratosthenes Seamount The Eratosthenes Seamount or Eratosthenes Tablemount is a seamount in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Levantine basin about south of western Cyprus. Unlike most seamounts, it is a carbonate platform not a volcano. It is a large, submerged mass ...

, by the

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's vessel

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. *

Kyrenia ship The Kyrenia Ship is the wreck of a 4th-century BC ancient Greek merchant ship. It was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diving instructor Andreas Cariolou in November 1965 during a storm. Having lost the exact position, Cariolou carried out more than 200 ...

– 4th century BC. * Porticello wreck – 400 BC. * A Greek merchant ship with rudder, rowing benches and the contents of the hold still intact was found in the

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, off the coast of

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. – more than 2,400 years old. ; 5th century BC * Ma'agan Mikha'el shipwreck – 5th century BC. * Tektas wreck, Turkey – 450-425 BC. ; 6th century BC * Giglio Island shipwreck – 600 BC. ; 7th century BC * Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta. ;10th to 20th century BC * The

Cape Gelidonya Cape Gelidonya ( tr, Gelidonya Burnu or Taşlık Burnu, from el, Χελιδωνία, ''Chelidonia''; la, Chelidonium promontorium), formerly Kilidonia or Killidonia is a cape or headland on the Teke Peninsula in the chain of Taurus Mountains, loc ...

shipwreck – 1200 BC. * The

Uluburun shipwreck The Uluburun Shipwreck is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BC, discovered close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand Cape), Turkey, in the Mediterranean Sea. The shipwreck was discovered in the summer of 1982 by Mehmed Ç ...

– 1300 BC. ; 20th century BC and earlier *

Dokos shipwreck The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists.Anzovin, item 5396, p. 385: "The oldest underwater shipwreck known to archeologists is the Dokos wreck, located in waters deep in the Aegean Sea off the island ...

– 2700–2200 BC.

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