INA Projects in Southern Europe,
the Mediterranean and Aegean
Albania Survey, Albania
Anaxum Project, Italy
Arade 1, Portugal
Azores, Portugal
Bajo de la Campana Wrecks, Spain
Bozburun, Turkey
Cape Gelidonya, Turkey
Danaos Project
Egadi Islands, Italy
Eastern Cyprus Maritime Survey, Cyprus
Expedition to the Georgian Black Sea Coast, Georgia
Kekova, Turkey
Kızılburun, Turkey
Kyrenia Wreck, Cyprus
Mazarron Timber Study, Spain
Novy Svet Wreck, Ukraine
Pabuç Burnu, Turkey
Pepper Wreck, Portugal
Persian War Shipwreck Survey, Greece
Porticello Wreck, Italy
Project Neptune, Normandy Invasion Fleet Survey, France
Renaissance Venetian Naval Manuscript Study, Italy
Secca De Capistello, Italy
Serçe Limanı, Turkey
Seytan Deresi, Turkey
Tektaş Burnu, Turkey
Uluburun, Turkey
Volage, Albania
Yassıada 4th-century, Turkey
Yassıada 7th-century, Turkey
Yenikapı Harbor Wrecks, Turkey
It was in Turkey that George Bass began to set the standards for scientific underwater excavation in 1960 with a Late Bronze Age shipwreck of around 1200 BC at Cape Gelidonya. Since then he and other INA pioneers have excavated shipwrecks of the 16th, 14th, sixth, fifth, third, and first centuries BC, and fourth, seventh, ninth, 11th, and 16th centuries AD, thereby beginning to write a history of Mediterranean ships and shipping that would have been impossible only 50 years ago. In the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology one can see a full-scale replica of the 14th-century Uluburun wreck and the remains of a fifth-century BC wreck excavated at Tektaş Burnu, walk on the deck of a full-scale replica of the seventh-century Byzantine wreck at Yassıada, and see the restored remains of the 11th-century wreck excavated at Serçe Limanı with its immense cargo of glass; artifacts from the other wrecks are also on exhibit. Cemal Pulak continues this tradition of research with his work on eight wrecks in the silted harbor of Byzantine Constantinople at Yenikapı, and by studying for publication the Ottoman Kadırga, a rare and significant preserved row galley in the Turkish Naval Museum in Istanbul.
On nearby Cyprus, Michael Katzev excavated a fourth-century BC Greek ship off Kyrenia that is now beautifully restored and displayed in the Kyrenia Castle. At the Italian island of Lipari, INA archaeologists in collaboration with SubSea Oil Services of Milan conducted the first deep-water excavation utilizing saturation diving.
Elsewhere, INA archaeologists have excavated a post-Medieval shipwreck off the Bulgarian coast, surveyed for wrecks in the Black Sea off Georgia, and examined for future excavation, a third-century BC wreck off the coast of Albania.
