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The Latest Underwater Discoveries

On the following pages, we highlight just a few of these ongoing underwater archaeology projects, from the recovery of a sixth-century B.C. Phoenician shipwreck, where excavators found a cargo that included elephant tusks and amber, to work on a 19th-century vessel in Oklahoma's Red River that has given archaeologists their first look at early steamship design.


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Roman Stone Carrier
Kızılburun, Turkey
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HMS Ontario
Lake Ontario, New York
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Min of the Desert
The Red Sea, Egypt
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Heroine
Swink, Oklahoma
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Corinthian Shipwrecks
Adriatic Sea, Albania

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Submerged DNA
Chios, Greece
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The Khan's Lost Fleet
Bach Dang River, Vietnam
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Tristán de Luna's Ships
Pensacola Bay, Florida
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Phoenician Wreck
Cartagena, Spain
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Liman Tepe Harbor
Bay of Izmir, Turkey

To delve even more deeply into the word of underwater history check out the University of Rhode Island's online Museum of Underwater Archaeology and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology's website.