Researchers discover New Treasures from Famous shipwreck
An ancient shipwreck, known as ‘Titanic of the ancient world’, has helped researchers know several things about ancient Greek. The shipwreck gave mysterious Antikythera mechanism, and still providing useful information on the lifestyles of the Greek.
Earlier, the researchers found new treasures in the form of a bronze armrest, a bone flute, glassware, an ancient board game piece and fine ceramics. According to a marine archaeologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the famous shipwreck isn't done revealing ancient secrets. Every time, divers dive on it, they find something amazing that reveals about 1% life in the time of Caesar, the archaeologist added.
The ancient shipwreck dates back to around 65BC. The wreck was discovered by some sponge divers in 1900 off a Greek island. According to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, it has been using data collected by a robotic submersible in 2014 to carry out systematic excavation of the location. New Scientist said that ‘Titanic of the ancient world’ is among the biggest underwater archaeological projects.
According to higher educational institution, last month, good weather conditions helped research teams that dived about 60 times to collected important information from the wreck's large debris field.
An archaeologist at the institute said, “We were very lucky this year, as we excavated many finds within their context, which gave us the opportunity to take full advantage of all the archaeological information they could provide”. As per New Scientist, divers have understood that they have to dig deeper to find more valuable information.
"This shipwreck is far from exhausted," reports project co-Director Dr. Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). "Every single dive on it delivers fabulous finds, and reveals how the '1 percent' lived in the time of Caesar."
"We were very lucky this year, as we excavated many finds within their context, which gave us the opportunity to take full advantage of all the archaeological information they could provide," states diving archaeologist Dr. Theodoulou.