This handout image provided by the Israel Antiquities Authority on June 20, 2024 shows a researcher displaying organic material found in artefacts that were discovered in a wreck more than a mile deep on the bed of the Mediterranean Sea by London-listed energy firm Energean which operates off Israel. A shipwreck more than 3,000 years old with its cargo intact has been found off the northern coast of Israel, the country’s antiquities authority said on June 20.
“The ship seems to have sunk in crisis, either due to a storm or to an attempted piracy attack -– a well-known occurrence in the Late Bronze Age,” Jacob Sharvit, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s marine unit, said in a statement.The wreck was found last year 90 kilometres from the coast of northern Israel and was estimated by officials to date back to the 14th or 13th century BC.