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World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey

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The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, archaeologists say.

They have dated it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which is the Early Bronze Age, and is around the same time that the Great Pyramid was being built.

The ship's wooden structure has not survived, but the ceramic storage pots it was carrying were lying on the sea floor and, remarkably, some still contain traces of what they held inside.

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