The Uluburun shipwreck
c. 1320 BCE · Event
A trading ship goes down off the Turkish coast carrying ten tonnes of Cypriot copper, Canaanite jars, African ebony and ivory, Baltic amber, Mycenaean pottery and a gold scarab of Nefertiti — cargo from at least seven cultures in a single hull. Excavated three thousand years later, it is the single richest snapshot of the interconnected world the Bronze Age collapse would destroy.
On these timelines: The Bronze Age, Master, The Levant
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