What technology could change the way we learn about shipwrecks A new survey of an iconic ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece has revealed new treasures — and the remains of a second sunken ...

Lying 50 metres down a steep underwater slope off Antikythera Island, in southern Greece, the Roman commercial vessel’s wreck was accidentally located by sponge divers more than a century ago.

A diver explores the Antikythera in 2025. Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece One of the main goals of the expedition was to retrieve three outer planks joined to the ship's internal frame.

Pottery from the Antikythera shipwreck's cargo. (Greece's Ministry of Culture and Sports) In 2016, marine archaeologists discovered a 2,100-year-old skeleton at the Antikythera wreck site.

A speck of land between the islands of Kythera and Crete, Antikythera, like many rural regions in Greece, has suffered steady depopulation. When the last national census was held in 2021, it had ...

Antikythera Island is roughly 150 miles southwest of Athens and north of Crete. Google Translate was used to translate the news release from Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Historian Evaggelos Vallianatos discussed what is believed to be the world's oldest computer, the 2000 year old Antikythera Mechanism, which was discovered by divers off the coast of Antikythera ...

A rare type of clay pot found at the Antikythera shipwreck in 2025. Photo from Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports Researchers plan to continue analyzing their finds.

A bronze chair arm — possibly the remains of an ancient throne — and a piece of a Greek board game are among the latest treasures raised from the site of the famous shipwreck Antikythera. The ...

The Antikythera Mechanism has been recreated in a computer simulation—yet enigmas still remain. A fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.