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- Nov 1, 200550% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Marmaray Tunnel Excavators Uncover Constantinople's Theodosian Harbor
- The Marmaray project needed a station at Yenikapı, on Istanbul's European shore, to link the city's two continents by rail under the Bosphorus.
- Digging in November 2005 struck the buried remains of the harbor built under Byzantine emperor Theodosius I.
- The find turned the construction site into one of the largest urban excavations ever undertaken, eventually recovering 37 Byzantine shipwrecks.
- Roughly 100,000 artifacts came out of the harbor mud, reshaping the understanding of Byzantine Constantinople.
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- [1]50%youtube.com/watch?v=qh813JlFwMQyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Nov 1, 2005 ✓· 33% of score
Accounts of the Marmaray excavation (Grand Sirkeci[3] Hotel's history page and the Harvard 'Urban Imagination' exhibit) place the discovery of the silted-up harbor at Yenikapı in November 2005, without a more precise day recorded.
- [2]75%Eight Byzantine Shipwrecks from the Theodosian Harbour Excavations at Yenikapıonlinelibrary.wiley.com· Added Sep 15, 2026· 33% of score
Peer-reviewed nautical archaeology journal covering the Yenikapı excavation and its 37 recovered shipwrecks.[1]
- [3]60%Yenikapı Shipwrecks and Theodosius Harborgrandsirkeci.com· Added Sep 15, 2026· 33% of score
Dates the discovery of the harbor to November 2005 during Bosphorus Tunnel Project excavation work.[1]
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