List of shipwrecks before Anno Domini

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


 * 1st century BC
 * Mahdia – 80 BC.
 * Antikythera wreck – 86 BC.


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


 * 3rd century BC
 * Marsala Punic ships, Sicily – 241 BC.


 * 4th century BC
 * Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus.
 * Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC.
 * Porticello wreck – 400 BC.
 * 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.


 * 5th century BC
 * Ma'agan Mikha'el shipwreck – 5th century BC.
 * Tektas wreck, Turkey – 450-425 BC.


 * 6th century BC
 * Giglio Island shipwreck – 600 BC.


 * 7th century BC
 * Gozo Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Malta.
 * Bajo la Campana Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Murcia, Spain.


 * 10th to 20th century BC
 * The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck – 1200 BC.
 * Orca Shipwreck - 1276 BC
 * The Uluburun shipwreck – 1300 BC.


 * 20th century BC and earlier
 * Dokos shipwreck – 2700–2200 BC.