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There may be more historical artefacts on the ocean floor than in all the world’s museums, because shipwrecks and drowned sites accumulate for millennia.

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Ships, cargo, tools, aircraft, settlements and ritual objects can end up underwater through trade, war, storms, sea-level change and accident. Exact totals are impossible, so the careful point is scale: underwater cultural heritage is enormous. This matters globally because human history does not stop at the shoreline. The lesson: memory is submerged as well as buried.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Okyanus tabanında, tüm dünya müzelerindekinden daha fazla tarihsel eser olabilir; çünkü batıklar ve su altında kalmış yerleşimler binyıllar boyunca birikir.

Gemiler, yükler, aletler, uçaklar, yerleşimler ve ritüel nesneleri ticaret, savaş, fırtına, deniz seviyesi değişimi ve kaza yoluyla su altına gidebilir. Kesin toplamlar imkânsızdır; bu yüzden dikkatli nokta ölçektir: Su altı kültürel mirası muazzamdır. İnsan tarihi kıyıda durmaz. Hafıza toprağa gömüldüğü kadar suya da batmıştır.

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Background reading: Underwater archaeologyAttribution and context are revised when stronger evidence appears. Corrections are welcome through the editorial page.
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