The hands of a diver hold the head found buried at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, in the Greek Peloponnese.
A European team of archaeologists and divers found a large marble head during an underwater archaeological investigation in the famous shipwreck of Antikytherain the Aegean Sea, as explained in a note from the Greek Ministry of Culture.
The researchers identified the head with a Hercules of the Farnese type and they believe it it may belong to the headless statue 5742 of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, whose discovery took place in the same shipwreck in the year 1900.
The discovery of the demigod’s head wasn’t the only surprise, as they found two human teeth set in a solid mass with traces of copper, the genetic material of which can be analyzed to determine the gender and characteristics of the person they belonged to.
A diver holds the head found buried at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, in the Greek Peloponnese, in the mythical Antikythera shipwreck, which was discovered in 1900 and still continues to amaze the world with its hidden pieces.
They also found numerous objects belonging to the shipsuch as bronze, iron, nails and other amorphous masses deformed by water and marine life whose secrets can only be traced through an X-ray.
For this project framed in the five-year plan 2021-2025, in which Greek, Italian and Swiss scientists participated, some stones had to be removed which prevented work on site.
Ceramic and copper objects in the Aegean were found in the Antikythera shipwreck area. Photo: EFE
All the pieces were transported to the facilities of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of Greece for its correct conservation.
The maritime area Southern Peloponnese has always been an area where its great storms have caused hundreds of shipwrecks since ancient times, among which the Antikythera shipwreckthe most important discovered to date.
Despite the numerous statues and other archaeological objects removed, this shipwreck is famous for a complex artifact: the anti cythera mechanismdiscovered in the year 1900 by divers who collected sponges.
The Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient Greek computer, found at the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
The Antikythera mechanism with planetary gears and dials, once rebuilt with 3D technology.
It is believed that this machine, built in the first century BC the oldest computer in the world for its complicated gear system capable of predicting eclipses and other astronomical phenomena.
In the first moment it was indecipherable due to the lack of a third of the mechanisms of the device, which were reconstructed by University College London through X-rays and a mathematical method from ancient Greece. EFE
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