Historical artifacts unearthed from a shipwreck in Turkey will be displayed in the United States, head of a business council said on Tuesday.
About 98 artifacts discovered from a sunken ship named Uluburun would be exhibited in New York from the second half of November, Haluk Dincer, chairman of the Turkish American Business Council, was quoted by the semi-official Anatolia news agency as saying.
"The artifacts will be on display in the 'Beyond Babylon: Arts, Trade and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York," said Dincer at a press conference in the largest Turkish city of Istanbul.
He said besides 98 artifacts from Uluburun ship, a total of 350 artifacts would be displayed in the exhibition, which will be inaugurated by two separate receptions on Nov. 18-19, and stay open till March 15, 2009.
The 98 artifacts were recovered from "Uluburun" shipwreck in Kas town of the Mediterranean province of Antalya.
The Uluburun shipwreck is a well-documented late 14th century BC shipwreck of the Late Bronze Age period, discovered off the south coast of Turkey by a Turkish sponge diver in 1982.
It was recovered using techniques of underwater excavation in 11 consecutive campaigns of three-four months duration each from 1984 to 1994.
The wreck represents a merchant ship of Near Eastern, probably Cypriot or Levantine origin.
Source:Xinhua
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