The Kyrenia is a reconstruction from a wreck of a 4th-century BC Greek merchant ship discovered in November 1965 during a storm. Michael Katzev, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, directed a salvage expedition from 1967-69. Preservation of the ship’s timbers continued during the winter of 1970, very well preserved with approximately 75% of it in good condition. Now housed at the Ancient Shipwreck Museum in Kyrenia Castle, where it remains on exhibit.