During a recent expedition at the site of the Antikythera shipwreck, marine archaeologists uncovered about 300 new objects, including 18 marble statue fragments, a previously undiscovered part of ...

As a bonus, they found a second ancient shipwreck just a few hundred meters south of the Antikythera wreck. Foley's team used mixed-gas closed-circuit rebreather technology for their survey ...

The Antikythera Shipwreck is the largest ancient shipwreck ever discovered, possibly a massive grain carrier. It was discovered and salvaged in 1900 by Greek sponge divers.

The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists across ...

The remains of the Roman-era shipwreck—dated to the 1st century B.C.—were fortuitously discovered by sponge divers in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island on the edge of the ...

Having secured a promise that his men would be hired for the salvage work, Kontos revealed the shipwreck’s exact location only after setting out for Antikythera, accompanied by the Greek Navy.

A famed Roman shipwreck, from the first century B.C., resting off the Greek Island of Antikythera may be two sunken ships. Here, scientist divers explore the wreck site in the strait between Crete ...

With its accidental discovery and countless ancient treasures, the Antikythera shipwreck in Greece sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie. Literally. This 2,000-year-old shipwreck inspired ...

A recent excavation at the Antikythera shipwreck, one of the ancient world’s richest and most famous wrecks, has yielded several significant discoveries, including a remarkably intact portion of ...

Argentinian scientists from the National University of Mar del Plata claim that the mysterious ancient mechanism is not ...

When Dimitrios Kondos and his crew of sponge divers found the Antikythera shipwreck in 1900, they weren't trying to make history or upend archaeologists' understanding of high technology in the ...

[Related: Human remains found in 2,000-year-old Antikythera shipwreck.] The team published their combined results in a paper published in the July 2024 issue of Horological Journal. Given that a ...