Antikythera shipwreck reveals ancient shipbuilding secrets in 2025 excavation

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The 2000-year-old remains at a depth of 45 metres, from which the well-known astronomical-calendar mechanism originates, still contain many secrets

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News from the famous wreck: Archaeologists have recovered and studied rare wooden parts from the hull of the ancient wreck of Antikythera. The interlinked wooden planks reveal the wood and the technique used by the freighter, which sank more than 2,000 years ago. Divers also discovered a life-size marble statue and other parts of the cargo of the ancient freighter. About 2,000 years ago, one of the greatest freighters of ancient times sank off t…

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Almost like in an Indiana Jones film: A ship that sailed across the seas five centuries before C.E. was discovered before Sicily.

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A Greek shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Sicily at a depth of six metres.

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Another important piece of Mediterranean history resurfaces from the seabed of Sicily. Off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo, in the Ispica area of Ragusa, a Greek shipwreck dating to between the 6th and 5th centuries BC has been almost entirely uncovered. It lies at a depth of six meters.