Ancient Shipwreck Museum.

What to see at Ancient Shipwreck Museum

• Known as the Kyrenia ship (Girne batığı), the restored hull of a Greek merchant ship, 14.75 m long and 4.2 m wide, is the best-preserved ancient wreck of the Levantine Sea.
• The museum shows it with its cargo, some 400 Rhodian wine amphorae.
• A stone anchor from Kos and coins dated 316–294 BC were found with the wreck.

History of Ancient Shipwreck Museum

About 300 BC

A merchant ship sinks off Girne; coins found with it date from 316 to 294 BC.

1965

Sponge diver Andreas Karolou finds the wreck about one nautical mile off Girne.

1967

A team of 54 divers and archaeologists led by Michael Katzev raises and restores the ship.

Visiting Ancient Shipwreck Museum

Allow half an hour. The museum is inside Girne (Kyrenia) Castle, on the old harbour in Girne old town. A car park is mapped about 150 m away, and the Girne main bus station, about 200 m away, is the nearest mapped stop.

Monuments near Ancient Shipwreck Museum

• Kyrenia Castleabout 50 m south-westThe fortress housing the museum, added to from Byzantine to Venetian times.
• Kyrenia Harbourabout 150 m westThe horseshoe harbour from which Girne's carob and salt left for centuries.
• Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House Museumabout 250 m westA harbour-front folk museum holding the tools and handwork of village life.