Researchers discover New Treasures from Famous shipwreck

Their discovery triggered newfound interest in the site, leading the worldwide team of researchers to recover artifacts still buried on the seafloor and to recreate the history of the ship’s final voyage.

“This shipwreck is far from exhausted”, Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said in a statement released last week. “Every single dive on it delivers fabulous finds, and reveals how the “1 percent” lived in the time of Caesar”.

Initial breakthrough that are caused by the spoil are 36 sandstone sculptures representing animated images and flawless from Greek Mythology.

Ancient shipwreck explored Dating from 65 B.C., the shipwreck was found by Greek sponge fisherman in 1900.

A team of worldwide archaeologists and professional divers succeeded in spending about 40 hours at the Titanic shipwreck site Antikythera earlier this year, as part of a systematic excavation of the shipwreck site for the first time ever. This ancient mechanism could predict the position of planets and eclipses accurately. The more you dive in the wreck, the more you will get to know about it. In fact, it is now one of the world’s largest underwater archaeological projects.

Divers performed 61 dives throughout the ten days of this year’s expedition while a remotely operated vehicle monitored and recorded all the diving activities and served as link between the divers and the supporting staff on the surface.

The 2015 expedition has left the archaeologists with the best understanding yet of this shipwreck and its cargo. A survey of the site suggests that debris is dispersed over 40×50 meters of area of Antikythera and probably more dives will require for collecting more artifacts. Last year, a robotic submersible was used to examine the site.

Divers recovered more than 50 artifacts, including an intact amphora, a glass figure from a board game, a wine jug, a lead salvage ring, a stone structure that was probably the base of a small statue, portions of a bone flute and a bronze armrest that could have been part of a throne. A series of scientific analyses are now being conducted on these artifacts, including ancient DNA analysis of ceramic jars to identify the 2,000 year-old food, drinks, perfumes, and medicines contained in them.

The previously recovered artifacts will be displayed at the Basel Antiquities Museum in Switzerland from 27 September 2015 to 27 March 2016.

One of the archaeologists on the project said the group has been lucky in 2015, as they have excavated a number of finds, which has given them the opportunity to take complete advantage of the information the finds’ provided.