Experts question claim of world’s oldest shipwreck off Turkey

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Archaeologists said they found jars from a shipwreck that may be as much as 4,700 years old, but outside experts were skeptical and intrigued, The New York Times reports. The jars contained black residue. This follows earlier reports that archaeologists had described a shipwreck off Turkey’s coast as the world’s oldest.

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1. The New York Times

   16 Oct 2026, 21:15 UTCSource ↗

   The New York Times reports that archaeologists said they found jars from a shipwreck as much as 4,700 years old, with black residue inside; outside experts were skeptical but intrigued.