# More Ancient Relics from the Antikythera Wreck! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ancient-relics-from-the-antikythera-wreck/798112 "2017-10-06T15:13:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ancient-relics-from-the-antikythera-wreck/798112/1 "2017-10-06T15:13:32Z")
Story here: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/science/antikythera-shipwreck-greece.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/science/antikythera-shipwreck-greece.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0) This is the same wreck that held the **Antikythera Mechanism** : [Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) Cool! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ancient-relics-from-the-antikythera-wreck/798112/2 "2017-10-06T15:24:05Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Story here: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/science/antikythera-shipwreck-greece.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/science/antikythera-shipwreck-greece.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0) > > This is the same wreck that held the **Antikythera Mechanism** : [Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) > > Cool! Very cool, thanks for the link. Learn something every day - Found by sponge divers 100 years ago. It’s at 116’ deep. Had know idea sponge divers would free dive that deep (at least according to wiki - [Sponge diving - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge_diving) ) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ancient-relics-from-the-antikythera-wreck/798112/3 "2017-10-06T18:05:58Z")
Very cool! However, my money (not a lot of money, though) is on that newly-discovered bronze disc with a picture of a bull on it **not** being part of the Antikythera Mechanism instrument. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ancient-relics-from-the-antikythera-wreck/798112/4 "2017-10-06T19:16:23Z")
I’m surprised its taken this long to uncover more stuff from this wreck. I would have thought that divers would have been like white on rice over that place for the last 100 years. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ancient-relics-from-the-antikythera-wreck/798112/5 "2017-10-06T19:20:32Z")
How accurately has the shipwreck been dated? IIRC the Antikythera mechanism itself was originally dated to the late 2nd century BC but a detailed analysis, published a few years ago, of the clock’s “epoch setting” suggests that it was designed in the time of Archimedes! (And presumably, therefore, in service for over a century before lost at sea?)