List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini

The list of shipwrecks before Anno Domini includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost before the year AD 1 of the Gregorian calendar.

1st century BC

• Mahdia – 80 BC.
• Antikythera wreck – 86 BC.

3rd century BC

• Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 BC.[1]

4th century BC

• Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus.[2]
• Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC.
• Porticello wreck – 400 BC.[1]
• A Greek merchant ship with rudder, rowing benches and the contents of the hold still intact was found in the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. – more than 2,400 years old.[3]

5th century BC

• Ma'agan Mikhael shipwreck – 5th century BC.[1]
• Tektas wreck, Turkey – 450-425 BC.[1]

6th century BC

• Giglio Island shipwreck – 600BC.[4]

10th to 20th century BC

• The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.

20th century BC onwards

• Dokos shipwreck – 2700–2200 BC.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

References

1. Åkesson, Per. "Wrecks & shipfinds of the Mediterranean". www.abc.se. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
2. Learn, Joseph Rapp (9 December 2017). "Wayfarers of the ancient world". New Scientist. Vol. 236 no. 3155. p. 12.
3. Lettens, Jan. "Oldest intact shipwreck found in the Black Sea". Wrecksite. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
4. Lienhard, John H. "An Etruscan Wreck". The Engines of Our Ingenuity. University of Houston. Retrieved 22 January 2012.