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The Agora => Greek News => Greek History & Culture => Topic started by: Maik on Saturday, 11 October, 2014 @ 04:32:39
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Archaeologists armed with top-notch technology have scoured one of the richest shipwrecks of antiquity for overlooked treasures, recovering a scattering of artefacts amid indications that significant artworks may await discovery under the seabed.
Lying 50 metres (164 feet) 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.
Using primitive suits and assisted by the Greek navy, they raised marble and bronze statues, luxury tableware and the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, an entrancingly complex clockwork computer that tracked the cycles of the Solar system and could predict eclipses to a precise hour on a specific day.
http://www.thehindu.com/in-school/signpost/archaeologists-revisit-rich-roman-wreck/article6488903.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1uoVrfcr1M
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The vid looks more like looting than archaeology to me. I think I would have expected some sort of grid system laid out to record where objects were found - particularly any remaining elements of the structure of the vessel.
Tony
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Greek archaeological body approves new 5-year excavation at Antikythera shipwreck
http://www.newsbomb.gr/en/story/593760/greek-archaeological-body-approves-new-5-year-excavation-at-antikythera-shipwreck