Human being has developed relation with water for first ages. People has used living beings in the water as nutrition or protected himself from predatories building platforms or used it as energy source. Relation with water of people has been carried up in this historical period when people used seas and rivers as transportation vehicle and thus details about history of humanity left an important marks that can be interpret and lighten to mysteries of history in harbors, ancient age lagans and trade routes. This young science that examines valuable clues has been named as underwater archaeology. Fundamentals of underwater archaeology has builded in Turkey and developed until today.

Updated on 28 January 2022