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archaeologist working at a web site in Turkey called Yenikapi have unearthed 37 remarkably well - preservedshipwrecks . The shipwrecks date back to the prison term of theByzantine Empire , and are found in the port of the ancient city Istanbul , then called Constantinople . Eight of the shipwrecks that date to the 5th to eleventh centuries are now describe in a new paper [ Full report : Byzantine Shipwrecks Shed Light on ship building History ] .
Here are photos of those shipwrecks :
The Yenikapi shipwreck called YK 14 was a 9th - C merchandiser ship , see here under sprinkler in April 2007 . Waterlogged archaeological wood can be sternly damaged if it is permit to dry out and so it must be keep constantly wet during its archeological site . ( photograph good manners of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / M. Jones . )
The shipwreck that research worker call YK 23 , shown in its original military position , in December 2007 . ( Photo good manners Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / İlkay İvgin . )
archeologist from the Istanbul Archaeological Museums work to dig up the shipwreck called YK 24 in July 2007 . ( Photo courtesy Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / M. Jones . )
Cemal Pulak , who is the task manager at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology , try pack of cards beams from caboose of the ship called YK 2 in April 2006 . These beam were found near one death of the ship , and would have also functioned as rowers ' benches . ( Photo good manners Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / S. Matthews . )
The cookhouse of the ship forebode YK 4 was part longitudinally shortly after it was excavated . The ship ’s bowknot is in the foreground of this photo , taken in October 2006 . ( Photo courtesy Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / M. Jones . )
Rebecca Ingram and Michael Jones retrace the planking of the ship called YK 11 onto clear shaping film , in October 2008 . ( Photo good manners Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / S. Matthews . )
archeologist from the Istanbul Archaeological Museums excavate shipwreck call YK 14 in April 2007 . ( Photo courtesy Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / M. Jones . )
Pulak oversees the remotion of a board from galley YK 2 in August 2006 . ( Photo courtesy Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University / R. Piercy . )
Workers represent out the parts of the seventh - century wreck holler YK 11 , in June 2008 . ( Photo courtesy Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University /R. Ingram . )
