Israeli researchers analyzed cargo from a 3,200-year-old shipwreck which demonstrated previously unknown elaborate trading links in the Mediterranean basin during the Late Bronze Age.
Interdisciplinary study shows a much more central role for 'passive' copper-rich nation Cyprus, which was able to pivot during fall of empires in 1200 BCE
Isotope analysis of artifacts fished out of historical port, points to active trade ties between the two distant populations as part of a vast commercial network in the eastern Mediterranean