title: List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini
text: # List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini
  
  The list of shipwrecks before Anno Domini includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost before the year AD 1 of the Gregorian calendar.
  
  ## 1st century BC
  
  * Mahdia – 80 BC.
  * Antikythera wreck – 86 BC.
  
  ## 4th century BC
  
  * Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus.
  * Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC.
  * Porticello wreck – 400 BC.
  * A Greek merchant ship with rudder, rowing benches and the contents of the hold still intact was found in the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. – more than 2,400 years old.
  
  ## 5th century BC
  
  * Ma'agan Mikha'el shipwreck – 5th century BC.
  * Tektas wreck, Turkey – 450-425 BC.
  
  ## 10th to 20th century BC
  
  * The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.
  * The Uluburun shipwreck – 1300 BC.
  