In 1901, a group of sponge divers discovered, off the Greek island of Antikythera, the remains of a Roman shipwreck. Among amphorae and statues they found a corroded block of bronze and wood that for ...
Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of the 21st century's most sensitive pieces of scientific equipment have helped cast new light on the function of the oldest ...
The artefact is now kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, and its dating places its manufacture in the late 2nd or early 1st century BC, coinciding with the sinking of the ship that ...