Public to get sneak peek at Antikythera shipwreck finds

A photograph taken off Kythera in the summer shows an archaeologist using a metal detector around the site of the ancient shipwreck.

Scientists exploring the 1st century BC Antikythera shipwreck off Greece’s southern coast will be unveiling findings from the first part of an international mission in Piraeus on Wednesday.

Underwater Antiquities Ephorate chief Angeliki Simosi has revealed that the event at the Laskaridis Foundation Library will include the display of a few of the finds made at the site that yielded the world’s oldest computer.

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