Posted on 09/26/2015 2:47:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The shipwreck dates to circa 65 B.C., and was discovered by Greek sponge fishermen in 1900 off the southwestern Aegean island of Antikythera. They salvaged 36 marble statues of mythological heroes and gods; a life-sized bronze statue of an athlete; pieces of several more bronze sculptures; scores of luxury items; and skeletal remains of crew and passengers. The wreck also relinquished fragments of the world’s first computer: the Antikythera Mechanism, a geared mechanical device that encoded the movements of the planets and stars and predicted eclipses...
The project is the first-ever systematic excavation of this shipwreck, relying on the precise large-area map created by the robotic survey. Notably, this project marked the first time in the century since the wreck’s discovery that archaeologists were able to join specialist divers in descending to the 55-meter (180 feet) deep site. The ten-man dive team used advanced technical diving equipment including closed-circuit rebreathers and trimix breathing gases, performing 61 dives in 10 days of diving on the wreck...
A metal detection survey of the site revealed that metallic targets are dispersed over an area of about 40×50 meters. This is thought to match the wreck’s debris field, indicating the vast size of the ship that sank off the forbidding cliffs of Antikythera.
Metal detectors revealed the presence of buried objects throughout the wreck site. The dive team recovered items including an intact amphora; a large lead salvage ring; two lead anchor stocks (possibly indicating the ship’s bow); fragments of lead hull sheathing; a small and finely formed lagynos (or table jug); and a chiseled rectangular stone object (possibly the base of a statuette) perforated by 12 holes and filled with an as-yet-unidentified substance.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Archaeologists excavating the famous ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the Antikythera mechanism have recovered more than 50 items including an intact amphora; a large lead salvage ring; two lead anchor stocks (possibly indicating the ship’s bow); fragments of lead hull sheathing; and a small and finely formed lagynos (or table jug). (Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA/ARGO)
Antikythera Shipwreck Yields Ancient Luxury Goods
http://www.archaeology.org/news/3714-150925-greece-antikythera-shipwreck
Marine Archaeologists Excavate Greek Antikythera Shipwreck
http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-shipwreck-excavation
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antikythera/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antikytherawreck/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antikytheramechanism/index
/johnny
Just the kitchen zinc.
Absolutely perfect.
Let me guess.
They’re looking for the owner’s manual.
trying to find the software license
The key that winds it up.
Did they find my Titleist?
Doesn’t sentiment zinc to the bottom of the bison?
If you ever find a Laxian Key, come back...
Hey, a little compassion, she broke up with me right after that.
:') Ya stumped me.The Gods Must Be Crazy.
;’)
I'd be surprised if the item was a one of a kind -- I also wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was actually being shipped as scrap, having stopped working, or having broken. Buuuuut, we're unlikely to ever know for sure.
I always wanted to be a marine archaeologist.
btt
;’)
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