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(408 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2013, 04:17 AM Jan 2013

Famed Roman shipwreck reveals more secrets

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Dan Vergano, USA TODAY 12:26a.m. EST January 4, 2013

Ancient artifacts resembling the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient bronze clockwork astronomical calculator, may rest amid the larger-than-expected Roman shipwreck that yielded the device in 1901.

The famed Antikythera shipwreck appears bigger than believed, loaded with antiquities
The shipwreck yielded bronze statues and the enigmatic Antikythera mechanism a century ago
Ship likely sank when a storm blew it against an underwater cliff
Marine archaeologists report they have uncovered new secrets of an ancient Roman shipwreck famed for yielding an amazingly sophisticated astronomical calculator. An international survey team says the ship is twice as long as originally thought and contains many more calcified objects amid the ship's lost cargo that hint at new discoveries.