While exploring the famous first-century BCE Antikythera shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece, divers made some remarkable new discoveries. Among them was a previously unnoticed second shipwreck that may have been caused by the same incident that sunk the first ship.This is exciting news. The essay has a link to the Greek press release.[...]
The finds include the new ship, another part of the first one, and lots of potsherds and bits of marble statues. But no sign of any additional steampunk calendar computers so far.
For more on the Antikythera mechanism, whose calender recent research has elucidated, and the first Antikythera shipwreck on which it was found, start here and follow the links.
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