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.

2nd century BC

• Thonis shipwreck – late 2nd century BC. The warship was sunk by debris falling from a temple that collapsed during an earthquake.

3rd century BC

• Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 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.

6th century BC

• Giglio Island shipwreck – 600 BC.

7th century BC

• Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta.
• Bajo la Campana Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Murcia, Spain.

10th to 20th century BC

• The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.
• Orca Shipwreck - 1276 BC
• The Uluburun shipwreck – 1300 BC.

20th century BC and earlier

• Dokos shipwreck – 2700–2200 BC.

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