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underwater heritage has been explored since the nineteen
sixties by Prof. George Bass, who then founded the Institute
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Archaeology (INA). For a couple of years now a young
Turkish team, conducted by Prof.
Dr. Nergis Gunsenin, has identified sixteen archaeological
sites during its surveys around the |
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Marmara islands. Eight of these carried Ganos type amphoras(Gunsenin
type 1 amphoras). Ganos
which is today's Gaziköy (situated along the north shore
of the Sea of Marmara), within the order of Tekirdag |
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One of them, Tekmezar
I was one of the biggest vessels of the Byzantine period,
a muriophoros with a cargo size of about 20,000 amphoras,
estimated weight of the cargo is about 200 |
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tones. Another was laden with cargo of
roof tiles;another of water
pipes;another was filled with Yassi Ada-globular type (
INA excavations); another wreck, carried |
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the last amphoras of maritime commerce; wreck of ÇAMALTI
BURNU I. Yet another recent discovery containing architectural
marbles. The importance of this wreck is that, it is the
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first discovery of a cargo of marble presumably coming from
the nearby marble quarries of the Marmara Island in Late Antiquity.
Detailed reports of the results of the underwater surveys have
been presented |
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in various international congress and many articles
have been published in scientific journals. At this point to
go any further we need to excavate |
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supporters and sponsors
animated
excavation
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