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Archaeology News Headlines April 01 to June 30 2020
UPDATE June 01 2020 – Good News! Picti is still recovering but it is slow though she is back home. Helen and I are still in lockdown at work in Germany, and John has almost recovered from what was first thought to be nasty flu but is likely to have been Covid-19. He still remains to be tested but no reliable tests are available yet…..
The news we can put up will be much reduced but please do keep sending in alerts about news stories so we can make it as good as we possibly can – P & H via Picti
UPDATE May 01 2020 – Good News! Picti is now out of hospital and did not need to go onto a ventilator. She will take a few weeks to recover but is back home. Helen and I are still in lockdown at work in Germany, and John has almost recovered from what was first thought to be nasty flu but is likely to have been Covid-19. He remains to be tested as none available yet…..
The news we can put up will be much reduced but please do keep sending in alerts about news stories so we can make it as good as we possibly can – P & H & J
UPDATE April 01 2020 – As Helen and I are working in Frankfurt and cannot get back to UK until Covid-19 pandemic infection controls are lifted. Picti has developed a nasty cold and is being tested in the next few days. Helen and I are in lockdown in our offices and are all OK.
The news we can put up will be much reduced from that in previous years, but please do keep sending in alerts about news stories and they will be put up whenever possible – Polly
[In October 1900, Captain Dimitrious Kondos was leading a team of sponge divers near the the island of Antikythera off the coast of Greece. They noticed a shipwreck about 180 feet below the surface and began to investigate. Amongst the artifacts that they brought up was a coral-encrusted piece of metal that later archaeologists found was some sort of gear wheel.
The rest of the artifacts, along with the shape of the boat, suggested a date around 2000 years ago, which made the find one of the most anomalous that had ever been recovered from the Greek seas. It became known as The Antikythera Mechanism.
In 2006 the journal “Nature” published a letter, and another paper about the mechanism was published in 2008, detailing the findings of Prof. Mike G. Edmunds of Cardiff University. Using high-resolution X-ray tomography to study the fragments of the anomalous Antikythera Mechanism, they found that it was in fact a bronze mechanical analog computer that could be used to calculate the astronomical positions and various cycles of the Moon – as seen from the Earth: – Ed]
Part of the Antikythera Mechanism
Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
2000-year-old analog computer recreated
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