Dozens of Cool Artifacts Recovered From the Antikythera Shipwreck

More than 50 items have been recovered at the site of the ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the far-famed Antikythera chemical mechanism . Working at a depth of 180 pes ( 55 meters ) , archaeologists managed to pull up the remains of a osseous tissue flute , glasswork , sumptuousness ceramics , and a bronze armrest .

The ship , which was discovered by sponge plunger in 1900 off the southwestern Aegean island of Antikythera , sunk sometime around 65 BC . Early excavations yielded a spectacular haulage of treasure , including bronze and marble statues , jewellery , piece of furniture , luxury glassware , and the surprisingly complexAntikythera Mechanism — a gadget count by some to be the universe ’s first computer .

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Last twelvemonth , archaeologists set about a new hardening of archeological site using specially designed equipment and a highly precise multi - dimensional map of the 10,500 square meters of sea floor . The submerged mining were conducted by Brendan Foley , a marine archaeologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , along with help from the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities . The expedition run from August 26 to September 16 , forgo by an autonomous automatic function effort in June with help from University of Sydney researchers .

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owe to the vivid water pressure , the 10 - person dive squad had to bank on advanced technical diving equipment , includingclosed - electrical circuit rebreathersandtrimix breathing gases . The divers were able to conduct 61 dives during the 10 - day expedition .

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Many of the artifacts were bump buried beneath a thick level of coarse sand and monolithic deposits of humbled ceramics . Among the particular discovered were the wooden remains of the hull , a incision of bronze piece of furniture ( that may have been part of a can ) , a bone flute , a glass “ chessman ” circuit board game piece , bronze nail from the ship ’s planks , and various items made from bronze , iron , glassful , and ceramics .

“ We were very lucky this year , as we excavated many finds within their context , which gave us the opportunity to take full vantage of all the archaeological information they could provide , ” take down diving archaeologist Theotokis Theodoulou in astatement .

To which Foley added : “ This wreck is far from exhausted . Every single diving on it delivers fabulous discovery , and reveals how the ‘ 1 pct ’ lived in the clock time of Caesar . ”

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