For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time.
The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine...

For almost a millenium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani:, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. This second volume on the ship's discovery focuses on the excavation, conservation, and study of the glass found in its wreckage.