Posted on 12/27/2025 7:28:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
From the island of Kekova, off the southern coast of Turkey, renowned underwater archaeologist Hakan Öniz takes viewers on a journey through the underwater wonders of Turkey.
Turkey's Island of 400 Ancient Shipwrecks
The SpeciaList | BBC | 4:04
BBC Global | 717K subscribers | 32,063 views | November 24, 2024
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The YouTube generated transcript was a wreck, so I got the usual reformatting done (follows) and then cleaned up some stuff manually, also put in links to more descriptive web page for some of it.
IntroductionThis is not our history; actually, this is the common history of the world. My name is Hakan Üniz. I'm an underwater archaeology professor. Today, I will be a specialist on underwater cultural heritage.
[Music]DolichisteNow we are at the site of Kekova island. Roman towns are very rare in the world. Do you see the walls? This is a part of houses. They were the coastline houses that are seen just because of the earthquakes. There were three strong earthquakes from the 2nd Century AD to the 6th Century AD. Coastline houses sunk like four meters in one second.Ancient SimenaThis is another Roman town. We will see graves in the water, typical Lycian. We will see some stairs that are coming from the surface to the deep water, like an open gate to underwater archaeology. Behind the Sima ancient site, you can see a medieval castle.
[Music]ShipwrecksWe have found about 400 ancient shipwrecks because we are very rich in underwater archaeology. Finding a shipwreck is kind of magic for me. Every day we dive to 50-60 m. Diving to this depth is quite dangerous. Mainly, we look to the dangerous places for these ships almost every day. Kumluca shipwreck; this is 3,600 years old. It is the earliest shipwreck of the world.
Can you see the green color? They are the coppers. During this Bronze Age, they had no money. For example, they paid their tribute to the Egyptian powers by copper ingots. This is one of the biggest underwater archaeology ships of the world. It is built and designed just for underwater archaeology excavations. We have multibeam sonar, and we are able to detect deep-water shipwrecks. It is very similar to reading Turkish cop.
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Fascinating. I saw a shipwreck on Lake Kinneret.
It’s mind-boggling how many wrecks there must be down there.
I used to live at Cigli AFB by Izmir.
Went with the Boy Scout troop to go camping next to the Roman ruins that were just everywhere.
Ancient history is just a step away in that part of the world.
Yeah, I’m a little jealous of their ruins and such.
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