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“Israeli Gas Giant Found Ancient Shipwrecks. Israel Covered It Up ”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-gas-giant-noble-energy-found-ancient-shipwrecks-mediterranean-israel-covered-it-up-1.9127798

“Israeli archaeologists have learned that the oldest remains of a ship discovered appear to date back 3,300 years to the Bronze Age. The ship was apparently carrying copper ingots, which in that period was the most costly and important raw material for the production of weapons and other tools. In 1982, Turkish divers discovered a Bronze Age shipwreck of their country’s shores. Known as the Uluburun shipwreck, the find included 10 tons of bronze ingots.

Archaeologists say that researching the area could produce a great deal of knowledge about early shipping routes, trade and cultural relations between the Israel and Lebanon to the east and Greece and Europe to the north. The two main sources of copper in the Bronze Age were Cyprus and Sardinia, and probably one of the two islands had been a port on the ship’s voyage.

“Very often we think about the ancients as a bunch of primitives who in the best case were acquainted with the lands of the neighboring village,” says Prof. Maeir, “but it seems they had a wide network of connections. Today we know about amber that came to Israel from the Baltic Sea and cinnamon that arrived from Sri Lanka during the Bronze and Iron Ages.”

Archaeologists believe the rest of the remains of wrecked ships in the Leviathan field may reveal an entire nautical history of the human race in the Mediterranean Sea, right up until the period of World War II.”