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2,000-YEAR-OLD ANCIENT SKELETON FOUND ON FAMED ANTIKYTHERA SHIPWRECK

Aug 23, 2022
A 2,000-year-old shipwreck that has been excavated for over a century just produced a game-changing new clue: a human skeleton. Was this a sailor aboard the large cargo ship that sank off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean? And was he aware of the mysterious computer on board, dubbed the Antikythera mechanism? Studies of the bones and their DNA are aimed at answering these questions.