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Uluburun shipwreck
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<p>The Uluburun Shipwreck is a <a href="/facts/Late_Bronze_Age/c09qWcTt">Late Bronze Age</a> <a href="/facts/Shipwreck/ygsVP8pT">shipwreck</a> dated to the late 14th century BC, discovered close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand Cape), <a href="/facts/Turkey/KIYAWAs0">Turkey</a>, in the <a href="/facts/Mediterranean_Sea/Vr2pzVbM">Mediterranean Sea</a>. The shipwreck was discovered in the summer of 1982 by Mehmed Çakir, a local <a href="/facts/Sponge_diving/QS1hcN6t">sponge diver</a> from <a href="/facts/Yal%25C4%25B1kavak/e9vPdlNG">Yalıkavak</a>, a village near <a href="/facts/Bodrum/V4FmDb1l">Bodrum</a>. </p><p>Eleven consecutive campaigns of three to four months' duration took place from 1984 to 1994 totaling 22,413 dives, revealing one of the most spectacular Late Bronze Age assemblages to have emerged from the <a href="/facts/Mediterranean_Sea/Vr2pzVbM">Mediterranean Sea</a>. </p>