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On the trail of the oldest shipwreck in the world

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from La Presse · Canada · Middle East

In October, archaeologists announced they had found the world's oldest shipwreck near Turkey. It would have sunk more than 4400 years ago. Why does the Mediterranean house the oldest recorded shipwrecks?

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