List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini

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The list of shipwrecks before Anno Domini includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost before the year AD 1 of the Gregorian calendar.

20th century BC and earlier

• Dokos shipwreck – 2700–2200 BC.^[1]

20th to 10th century BC

• Canaanite shipwreck – c. 1300 BC 90 kilometres (56 mi) off the north coast of Israel, in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 1,800 metres (5,900 ft).^[2]
• The Uluburun shipwreck – 1300 BC.
• The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.
• The Zambratija shipwreck – 1200 - 1000 BC.

7th century BC

• Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta.^[3]
• Bajo la Campana Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Murcia, Spain.

6th century BC

• Giglio Island shipwreck – 600 BC.^[4]

5th century BC

• Ma'agan Mikha'el shipwreck – 5th century BC.^[5]
• Tektas wreck, Turkey – 450-425 BC.^[5]

4th century BC

• Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus.^[6]
• Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC.
• Porticello wreck – 400 BC.^[5]
• A Greek merchant ship with rudder, rowing benches and the contents of the hold still intact was found in the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. – more than 2,400 years old.^[7]

3rd century BC

• Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 BC.^[5]

2nd century BC

• Thonis shipwreck – late 2nd century BC. The warship was sunk by debris falling from a temple that collapsed during an earthquake.^[8]

1st century BC

• Mahdia – 80 BC.
• Antikythera wreck – 86 BC.