Researchers are carrying out a new five-year study of the ancient Greek shipwreck off Antikythera Island that had onboard the famous Antikythera mechanism, hailed as the world's first computing device, as well as other treasures.
A recent analysis of the wreck identified two areas with artifacts and ship remnants, leading archaeologists to believe that there may have been another ship that went down simultaneously. Alternatively, the two areas of remnants may be separate parts of the Antikythera wreck after it split in two.
Greek officials approved the extension of studies of the ancient vessel, which may have been 50 meters (164 feet) long. Researchers are expecting to find more treasures from the ship, which is located at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, in the south of Greece.
This time they will focus on areas where they've found metal objects and pottery in the past.
“The evidence shows this is the largest ancient shipwreck ever discovered,” Brendan Foley of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has said. “It's the Titanic of the ancient world.”
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