"The Antikythera Shipwreck: Excavating the World's Richest Ancient Shipwreck" 

The best presenter Ive seen of academic information

Visiting the Athens Archaeological Museum is one of my great bucket list items. I can’t wait to see the Antikythera artefacts and The Mechanism!

Great work. The more we find the more our past seems to ask more questions. So many massive finds. So much lost destroyed or stollen artifacts and buildings.

Dr. Foley *finally* starts talking at 5:15! 😩

Lecture starts at 5:15

Excellent présentation sir! Hello from Louisiana. :-)

Fabulous and fascinating! This is the best in-depth explanation and photography of the 'titanic' - luxury cruise ship - that we have discovered. Marvelous ideas.

I wish to Mr Brendan Foley all the best for him and big Thanks for what he does.

Is there any chance to reconstruct the type of ship / compass orientation / size upon sinking / way it broke apart from the positioning of the ship pieces and cargo found so far? Would the pieces have moved much in 2k years? Or is there no way?

Wonderful, very interesting, thanks for uploading, I will be visiting the Archaeological Museum of Athens on Monday and look forward to see some of the artefacts from the wreck . Thanks

It's weird to think that when the ship went to sea it left from a specific destination on a certain date and with a likely smiling, happy and ambitious crew. From that point on there are no records recorded during the voyage and the crew is never seen again. No exact date/time when it sank, nothing. Even now we only know where it rests, nothing about it's journey or crew. Tragic.

FUN FACT: the Greeks in the Antikythera Shipwreck performed the first underwater archaeological exploration in history.

Sadly I have to wonder if the site was raided. I did not see any indications of sponges in the video. The presence of limbs but not bodies(statues) suggests the possibility, to me, nets ripped them off or they ripped off while hoisting the statues? I have to wonder if this was related to the Olympic games moved from site to site? There is just to much and to high a quality for them to have been a private collection? A governments collection?

What could have brought a ship that massive and advanced for its time,to its end....

300 bronze Statue discovered in 1900.....that the Aegean is the twentieth century which have fundamental altered the modern view of Ancient Greek sculpture....is the most brilliant products.

one wonders why they do not apply the sandblasting technology used by Mel Fisher on the Atocha? Basically the TOOL is a 90 degree funnel that redirects the prop wash to remove sands covering artifacts.

I was pulled to that mechanism over 3 years ago out the Blue.

I have a theory that this ship may have belonged, or rather this cargo may have belonged to just one wealthy person, actually.

A ship this big sinking would have been noted in history annals. Have we exhaustingly scoured the literature to find any mention? Failing that, does the lack of mention increase the likelihood that it was several smaller ships as opposed to one giant ship? Or is it simply so long ago that the historical literature records show a fraction of events that transpired? I fear it’s the latter.

Have giants & titans turned to stone been found on the ocean bottom ?

If the Library of Alexandria had not been burned we would have known more.

Captain kontos! I'm a kontos! 🌹😘. Haha except it's an anglicized name even though both are still Greek , my original name was kontogiannis . Still im a Contos . Again, anglicized to be spelled with a c instead of a k.

Vedic ship :D

No SHIT the sponge fisherman kept a whole bunch of the best shit, I guarantee you they kept or sold some of the best jewellery n artifacts

Those are Greece's riches.

Those are not statues those were humans that went through a process called transmutation.

Thumbs up, anyway, but would have gotten it even just for the "british museum"-joke ;-)

"Have they not traveled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? They were more numerous than themselves and greater in strength and in impression on the earth, but they were not availed by what they used to earn". Quran S40 V82.

"It only matters if you can raise it" NO dummy it DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL BECAUSE IT'S THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, AND MONEY SHOULD NEVER BE AN ISSUE NO MATTER WHAT. IN FACT IT SHOULD BE IN THE INTEREST OF EVERY GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD TO MAKE SURE THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL BUDGET SPECIFICALLY TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.