National Geographic commemorates the excavation of the Uluburun

National Geographic blog News Watch recently published a fantastic photo essay commemorating the fifty-year anniversary of the beginning of George Bass' excavation of the Uluburun, a bronze-age shipwreck off the coast of Turkey, which brought with it the professionalization of the field of underwater archaeology. Artifacts from the Uluburun are now housed in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey, one of the world's foremost archaeological museums.