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The Antikythera wreck (Greek: ναυάγιο των Αντικυθήρων, romanized: navágio ton Antikythíron) is a Roman-era shipwreck dating from the second quarter of the first century BC. [1] [2] It was discovered by sponge divers off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900.
Derek J. de Solla Price (1922–1983) with a model of the Antikythera mechanism. Captain Dimitrios Kontos (Δημήτριος Κοντός) and a crew of sponge divers from Symi island discovered the Antikythera wreck in early 1900, and recovered artefacts during the first expedition with the Hellenic Royal Navy, in 1900–01. [32]
Antikythera is most famous for being the location of the 1900 discovery of the Antikythera wreck, [12] from which the Antikythera Ephebe and Antikythera mechanism were recovered. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (sometimes described as the first mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions which ...
The discoveries by the 'Return To Antikythera' team hint that there may be more treasures to uncover in the area surrounding the famous shipwreck. The arm of a bronze statue was discovered at the ...
Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of a small Aegean island called Antikythera in 1901, this sunken, barnacled device was likely built around the beginning of the first century BCE, and ...
The Antikythera Ephebe, registered as Bronze statue of a youth in the museum collections, [1] is a Greek bronze statue of a young man of languorous grace that was found in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece.
The Heracles of Antikythera (Greek: Ηρακλής των Αντικυθήρων) is a large ancient Greek marble sculpture of the Greek hero Heracles, found in the wreck of Antikythera among several other findings, and now housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-old Computer and the Century Long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant is an exploration of the history and significance of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) [1] [2] designed to calculate astronomical positions.