submitted by Archaeology On Kythera on 25.09.2014
By Margarita Pournara Ekathimerini 10.7.2014 Around two-and-a-half years ago the National Archaeological Museum inaugurated “The Shipwreck of Antikythera: The Ship – the Treasures – the Mechanism.” The exhibition on the wreck that went down in the second quarter of the 1st century BC – taking with it artworks, coins and other artifacts, along with the world’s oldest known analog computer, the “Antikythera mechanism” – was so successful that ...
submitted by Archaeology On Kythera on 21.09.2014
A project of the Hellenic Ministry of culture and Sports, with the support of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Here's the link for daily updates re: the Antikythera shipwreck excavation during fieldwork. http://antikythera.whoi.edu/blog/
submitted by Archaeology On Kythera on 18.09.2014
Exosuit will enable divers to reach double normal depths during return expedition to wreck that yielded Antikythera mechanism Agence France-Presse in Athens theguardian.com, Monday 15 September 2014 Photograph: A reconstruction of Antikythera mechanism. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images Archaeologists began using a revolutionary new deep-sea diving suit on Monday to explore the ancient ...
The Fox Gazette October 5, 2012 BY ANDY Photograph: The remains the Antikythera mechanism, a device of up to 40 cogs and gears that the ancient Greeks used to track the cycles of the solar system. Photograph: X-Tek Group/AFP Over 2000 years ago, a Roman vessel ladened with stolen Greek treasure sank near the Greek island of Antikythera. Many years later, in 1900, sponge divers hauled up a piece of ...
submitted by Mediterranean Archaeology on 25.04.2014
From americanlivewire Are you ready for a new age of archaeology? Recently published research describes how archaeologists outfitted a customized drone with a heat-sensing camera to unearth what they believe are ceremonial pits and other features at the site of an ancient village in New Mexico. The discovery of the structures hidden beneath layers of sediment ...
submitted by Odyssey Magazine on 31.01.2012
Photograph: Scraping the bottom divers worked collecting artifacts which they hope will shed more light on the ship and its voyage. In 1802, one of the ships charted by Lord Elgin to transport the Parthenon Marbles to England sank off the coast of the southern Peloponnese. Most of its cargo was recovered but a Greek Australian foundation and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture have joined ...
submitted by John Fardoulis on 26.05.2010
Hello, There will be an archaeological dig near the Agios Theoderos monastery in Kythera during July this year. Archaeologist, Aris Tsaravopoulos will be conducting this rescue excavation with a small team of his associates. Positions are open for volunteers from the Kytherian community to help support Mr Tsaravopoulos with the archaeological dig. Even though a formal excavation has not yet taken place around the monastery, the site is believed to have functioned as ...
submitted by Archaeological Institute Of Athens, Sydney on 17.05.2010
Report by, Wayne Mullen, Executive Officer The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens was established in 1980 following negotiations with the Greek government. The Institute is similar to the other scholarly institutions in Athens maintained by major European and American countries. Some of these, such as the French School (École Française d'Athènes), the American School of Classical Studies ...
submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 12.11.2009
“The model of the Antikythera mechanism was designed in 1989 by Dr Allan Bromley, who was an Associate Professor in the Basser Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sydney. It demonstrates the complexity of the gears and the dials of the mechanism that manoeuvred the upper cycle of the 19 year calendar, and the lower cycles used to predict solar and lunar eclipses. The recent research of Allan’s collaborator, ...
submitted by Andrew Bevan on 29.10.2008
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submitted by Andrew Ballantyne on 11.03.2008
A new book about Paliochora with measured drawings, a fresh historical interpretation, and some reconstructions. http://web.mac.com/asquins2002/Site/Reconstruction_1.html
submitted by Kytherian Newsflash on 07.11.2007
by Gary Vey In 1900 a sponge diver was working in the Mediterranian, just off the island of Antikythera at a depth of about 138 feet. Divers had noticed various fragments of ancient cargo scattered along the bottom of this location but it was one Elias Stadaitos who discovered the source of these artifacts. Elias found the remains of a Roman cargo ship and for many months he returned to the site to find statues, pottery and interesting clumps of rock which often encrusted metalic objects.
submitted by BBC, Great Britain on 07.11.2007
By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News The Antikythera Mechanism was explored in an episode of Unearthing Mysteries on BBC Radio 4, on 12 December, 2006. There are 82 remaining fragments of the mechanism that contain a total of 30 gears The largest piece ...
submitted by Meditarch, Mediterranean Archaeology on 23.10.2006
Introduction Authors: Cosmos Coroneos, Lita Diacopoulos, Timothy E. Gregory, Ian Johnson, Jay Noller, Stavros A. Paspalas, Andrew Wilson The island of Kythera, situated south of the Peloponnese and north of Crete (fig.1), boasts no great antiquities or famous historical figures. As a result, the island has received, untilrecently, only limited archaeological and historical attention. New discoveries, however, and a realization of Kythera's importance as a cultural ...
submitted by Vema Newspaper on 23.10.2006
On top of a 350 m high hill, next to Avlemonas, Kythera, an intact Minoan summit-sanctuary was located and a number of artifacts was found. It was the sanctuary of a Minoan Colony, which was founded on the coast next to Avlemonas 4,000 years ago. The ruins of the Minoan settlement, now known as Paleopolis or Kastri, were found in the 50s. Nobody though had ever thought, that uphill, next to the small chapel of Saint George (Aghios Georgios), an intact Minoan summit-sanctuary was hidden. This is actually ...
submitted by Kytherian Newsflash on 31.08.2006
Over the past fifty years, the Antikythera Device has gone from being the most anomalous and controversial artefact to one of the most renowned pieces of evidence of the scientific genius of our ancestors – a millennium ahead of its time. By Philip Coppens Article from LightEye 25 02 2006 In 1900, a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos, working off the small Greek island of Antikythera, found the remains of a Greek ship at ...
submitted by - AAIAA - on 17.03.2006
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submitted by - AAIAA - on 28.01.2006
Vol 2. 2004. Access the 52 page Bulletin, here: AAIABulletin2.pdf [Introductory] Letter from the Director This is the second issue of the AAIA Bulletin and I hope that the readers will find that it is an improvement on the first. Now that the Institute is closely linked with Mediterranean Archaeology, which has become its official journal, and ...
submitted by The Australian Paliohora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) on 29.12.2005
Prehistory: before 1000 B.C. The earliest recorded archaeological evidence for human occupation of Kythera indicates that the island was inhabited by the Early Bronze Age. Early Helladic sites have been identified so far in the northern part of the Island, at Pyreatides and at Vythoulas, between Ayia Pelayia and Potamos (Waterhouse & Hope-Simpson 1961:149). Early Helladic site ...
submitted by The Australian Paliohora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) on 27.12.2005
Visit the APKAS website at: http://kythera.osu.edu The Australian Paliochora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) KYTHERA 2005 FIELD SEASON A small team of five conducted a brief season from July 4 until 18. The aim of this year’s season was to advance the study of the material collected during the four field seasons of the project. Considerable progress was made in the archaeological drawing of the pottery sherds datable ...
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