
3,600-year-old bronze dagger with silver rivets found in a shipwreck in Antalya
Turkish underwater archaeologists found a 3,600-year-old silver riveted bronze dagger, which was determined to belong to the Cretan-Minos civilization, during an underwater excavation in a shipwreck off the coast of Antalya’s Kumluca district. The discovery was led by Assoc. Prof. Hakan Öniz from Akdeniz University. Underwater archaeology studies in the Kumluca region have been ongoing