c. 1320 BCE

The Uluburun shipwreck

A merchant ship sinks off southern Turkey around 1320 BCE carrying about 10 tons of Cypriot copper, a ton of tin, some 175 glass ingots, ebony, ivory and Canaanite jars. Found in 1982 and excavated 1984-1994, it points to a Levantine crew with two Mycenaeans aboard.