The Keryneia ship is a merchant ship that was discovered in 1965 by a Cypriot diving instructor, Andreas Charilaou. However, Charilaou lost its location, and the ship was re-discovered, after 200 dives, in 1967.It was then surveyed and excavated from 1967 to 1969 by Michael Katzev, a graduate student of the University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The shipwreck is dated in the
4th century BC and it carried 400 amphoras (most of them were Samian and Rhodian), 30 grain millstones, coins, anchors, iron blooms, tools, pots, stone ballast and cooking utensils.
It was then exhibited at the Keyrneia Castle, and after the Turkish invasion of 1974, it remained there.
After a lot of studies on the ship and its characteristics, the Keryneia II, Keryneia III and the Keryneia Liberty replicas were built.
Pictures:
The Keryneia shipwreck hull excavation
The shipwreck hull remains after the excavation of the cargo and the reassembled timbers on display at the Keryneia castle (1968).
Information:
http://www.vizin.org/projects/kyrenia/setting.html
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