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A team of archaeologists reports a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey as the oldest known in the world. The wreck is largely gone, but pottery vessels found among its cargo allow the researchers to tentatively date it to about 2700–2400 B.C., roughly 4,500 years ago. Previously, the record was held by a wreck off Dokos in Greece, estimated at around 4,200 years old. The new find extends the known history of maritime activity by several centuries.

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