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A Worker Found a 200-Year-Old Shipwreck Beneath the Real ‘Game of Thrones’ Capital

created: July 2, 2025, 12:30 p.m. | updated: July 8, 2025, 9:52 a.m.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A worker doing water pipeline work discovered an 18th-century wooden boat in Old Town Dubrovnik, Croatia. The UNESCO protected heritage site is a popular tourist attraction, especially since it’s a Game of Thrones filming location. King’s Landing is located on the fictional continent of Westeros in Game of Thrones, but there’s been a real-life discovery of an 18th-century shipwreck in the real-life shooting location, Dubrovnik, Croatia. “I can now say I discovered a boat at the Old Town Dubrovnik,” he told the Associated Press. The wreck, nestled 8,200 feet underwater, is the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in the country.

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