BURIED TREASURES PULLED FROM 'TITANIC OF ANCIENT WORLD' (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 11:59

Philip Short, the project chief diver of the "Return to Antikythera" mission, inspects the 6.5-foot-long (2 meters) bronze spear recovered from the wreck.
Credit: Brett Seymour, Copyright: Return to Antikythera 2014

Ancient tableware, lead anchors and a giant bronze spear have been recovered during an expedition to the 2,000-year-old Antikythera shipwreck in Greece.

The treasure-filled sunken ship was first discovered more than a century ago. Now, undersea excavators who are revisiting the wreck say it actually covers a much bigger area than expected.

"The evidence shows this is the largest ancient shipwreck ever discovered," Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, said in a statement. "It's the Titanic of the ancient world." [In Photos: Mission to 2,000-Year-Old Antikythera Shipwreck]

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