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For picture: http://www.deviantart.com/view/26612480/ http://www.deviantart.com/view/26612330/ http://www.deviantart.com/view/26612056/ The Ancient Ship of Kyrenia (Extracts from the Kyrenia Shipwreck by Susan Womer Katzev in the Athenian , March 1982) In 1967 a Greek merchant ship  which sailed during the lifetime of Alexander the Great, carrying a cargo of 400 amphorae, whose contents of almonds and olives remained intact, was found sunk off the coast of Kyrenia on the northern coast of Cyprus. It is one of the oldest shipwrecks ever found. The ship, found by a Cypriot diver, lay at thirty metres on an unruffled, flat seabed of sand,