Findings from the three,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal a posh commerce community
Tin from the Mušiston mine in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan traveled greater than 2,000 miles to Haifa, the place the ill-fated ship loaded its cargo earlier than crashing off the jap shores of Uluburun in present-day Turkey. Credit score: Map supplied by Michael Frachetti/Washington College in St. Louis
Greater than 3,000 years earlier than the Titanic sunk within the North Atlantic Ocean, one other well-known ship was wrecked within the Mediterranean Sea off the jap shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of uncommon steel. Since its discovery in 1982, scientists have been finding out the contents of the Uluburun shipwreck…