8 Byzantine Empire Era Shipwrecks Excavated In Turkey

image credit Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University

Archaeologists working at a site in Turkey called Yenikapi have unearthed 37 remarkably well-preserved shipwrecks. The shipwrecks date back to the time of the Byzantine Empire, and are found in the port of the ancient city Istanbul, then called Constantinople.

Eight of the shipwrecks that date to the fifth to 11th centuries are now described in a new report. The shipwrecks shed new light on shipbuilding history.