Info Of Antikythera Shipwreck Yields Bronze Arm – Together With Hints At Spectacular Haul Of Statues

Arm points to beingness of at to the lowest degree vii statues from Greek shipwreck, already the source of some extensive together with exciting ancient cargo e'er found

This bronze arm was discovered amongst a bespoke underwater metallic detector, which has revealed the presence of other large metallic objects nearby nether the seabed. 

Photograph: Brett Seymour/EUA/ARGO 2017

Marine archaeologists bring recovered a bronze arm from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek isle of Antikythera, where the remains of at to the lowest degree vii to a greater extent than priceless statues from the classical basis are believed to prevarication buried.

Divers flora the correct arm, encrusted together with stained green, nether one-half a metre of sediment on the boulder-strewn gradient where the send together with its cargo at ane time rest. The huge vessel, peradventure 50m from bow to stern, was sailing from Asia Minor to Rome inward 1BC when it foundered close the tiny isle betwixt Crete together with the Peloponnese.

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