An Underwater Archaeology Section of the University Museum was founded in 1960, overseen by George F. Bass, a former curator of the Mediterranean Section and one of the pioneers in the science of underwater archaeology. The first Underwater Archaeology project was a late Bronze Age shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya, off the southwest coast of Turkey. In 1968 underwater excavations were carried out by the Museum, this time off the north coast of Cyprus, near Kyrenia. With the cooperation of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, and under the direction of Michael Katzev, these excavations uncovered a fourth century B.C. Greek merchant vessel that sank in the early third century B.C. The vessel was carrying a cargo of hundreds of amphorae, some of which contained almonds. Twenty-nine millstones, probably used as ballast, were also recovered, as well as pottery from the ship's cabin and coins that helped to date the wreck.