© The Greek Herald. For the full article click here. By George Vardas One of the most unique and well-known artefacts on display in the renovated Archaeological Museum of Kythera is a marble statue of a lion sitting on a...
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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...
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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://ant...
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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 reconst...
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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...
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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 ceremoni...
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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 E...
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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 associa...
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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 inst...
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“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...
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The Antikythera Survey Project (ASP) is a phased, interdisciplinary program of fieldwork, artifact study and laboratory analysis that addresses the long-term history and human ecology of the tiny Greek island of Antikyth...
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A new book about Paliochora with measured drawings, a fresh historical interpretation, and some reconstructions. http://web.mac.com/asquins2002/Site/Reconstruction_1.html
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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 th...
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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 mech...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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Vol 1, 2003. Bulletin04web.pdf
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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 t...
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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...
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