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Huge ancient Bronze age shipyard unearthed on Turkey’s Dana Island 2016-10-22 09:17:19 Post No.
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Huge ancient Bronze age shipyard unearthed on Turkey’s Dana Island
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A huge shipyard, believed to be the oldest in the world, has been discovered on Dana Island in the southern province of Mersin’s Silifke district.
Academics believe that the huge shipyard, which includes nearly 270 slipways, could shed light on the 400-year “Dark Ages” of the Mediterranean over 1,000 years B.C.
“This is the one and only in the world. The biggest shipyard that has been proven archaeologically in the world,” said Hakan Öniz, the head of Selçuk University’s Underwater Archaeology Department.
Öniz said they had started underwater works on the coasts of Mersin in 2015 in an attempt to discover archaeological artifacts and prohibited areas for diving on the coasts of Mersin, particularly in Silifke.
“We were surprised when we found dozens of slipways in the northern part of the island in 2015,” Öniz said, adding that they were still working to determine the exact period these structures date back to.
“During works in 2016, we also unearthed a huge shipyard where 274 ships could be built at the same time. It is the only such shipyard in the world. We are continuing work to try to date it. Most probably it is the oldest shipyard in the world. We estimate that it was used around 1,200 B.C. in the Late Bronze Age,” he said.
Stating that the Dana Island most probably was known as the island of the Denyen, named the “Sea People” in the 12th century, Öniz said the Denyens were first mentioned by the Hittite King Telipinu around 1,500 B.C. “The Adania region, which King Telipinu mentioned, is the region of Adana and Mersin today,” he added.
“The reason why this era is called the ‘Dark Age’ is that we have limited archaeological information about a period of around 300-400 years. Most probably a big drought, earthquakes or epidemic disease occurred in the 13th century B.C. We can deduce this from the fact that Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II had to send ships full of grain from the Alexandria region, which is usually productive and suitable for agriculture.
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>>1858495
Bump
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Efendi Murad I bin B (ID: !PASHA9LRl6)
2016-10-22 14:38:00
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Maybe now we can solve the great riddle regarding the "sea people".
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>>1859241
Yes, this proves at least that the Denyen were the ancestors of the Turks
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>santorini eruption
>Atlantis
>the Iliad
>sea peoples
>bronze age collapse
these must be linked somehow
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>>1859337
Santorini was in 1650 bc, the sea peoples' attack start around 1250 bc
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>>1858495
Kek to this day people from that area are known to be violent and macho and shit.
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>>1859411
Interestingly enough the people from this region match the descriptions of the Deynen, one of the many sea people tribes, but also the Dan tribe whose people "lived on ships", interestingly it's also the same period of the Illiad where the Acheans are always accompanied by the Danaoi, the Danaoi, which are also connected with Egypt in Greek myths.
Speaking of Greeks, Mycenaean pottery is found in huge amounts in late bronze age Cyprus which is right in the opposite side of the sea facing the Adana region, Cyprus was also known as a Denyen territory later on, and was also one of the most active regions trade wise (of course it was a great exporter of copper) during that time.
Speaking of Cyprus, other notable sea peoples were the Sherden and the Shekelesh, the place most visited by Cypriot and Mycenean sailors in the West were Sicily and especially Sardinia, where the greatest quantity of copper oxhide ingots was found.
We also have the Philistines who might have been invaders from Crete, which had one of the most active port cities in the Med at the time (Kommos) and of course it's likely that Mycenaeans used it as a port from where they sailed to the Levant and of course Cyprus.
The mystery is really deep.
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