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The wreck was left alone again for nearly 40 years until a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) marine archaeologist named Brendan Foley (now at Lund University in Sweden) got permission from ...
The expedition to the Antikythera shipwreck, which is located in the Aegean Sea off of Greece, was announced in a press release published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) on ...
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 ...
Item 15087 wasn’t much to look at, particularly compared to other wonders uncovered from the shipwreck at Antikythera, Greece, in 1901. The underwater excavation revealed gorgeous bronze scul… ...
Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism arXiv preprint suggests December 23, 178 BCE; others think it was summer 204 BCE.
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.
The report said the Antikythera Mechanism "was a complex, whirling, clockwork instrument comprising at least 30 bronze gears bearing thousands of interlocking tiny teeth.
The two researchers published a paper advancing our understanding of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek mechanism that modeled the known universe of 2,000 years ago.