The Uluburun shipwreck
Ten tonnes of copper and Nefertiti's scarab on the seabed
In 1982 a sponge diver sketched 'metal biscuits with ears' he had seen on the seabed off Cape Uluburun: copper ingots. The ship, wrecked in the late 14th century BC, carried ten tonnes of copper in 354 ingots and a gold scarab bearing Nefertiti's name.
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One of the richest Bronze Age shipwrecks was found by a sponge diver who sketched 'metal biscuits with ears'. They were copper ingots: ten tonnes of them on a 14th-century BC ship off Turkey, plus a gold scarab of Nefertiti. Share →