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Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck
- te 10y agoI want to know more details about a "war dolphin", but the Internet doesn't seem to know about it.
- beat 10y agoIt made me think of the William Gibson short story "Johnny Mnemonic" (the original story, not the almost-unrecognizable movie version).
- jloughry 10y agoI remember that! The ancient Greek dolphin is described pretty well here: https://books.google.com/books?id=cauMt9vJLs0C&lpg=PA162&dq=greek%20dolphin%20weight%20ship%20weapon&pg=PA162#v=onepage&q=dolphin&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=cauMt9vJLs0C&lpg=PA162&dq=...
- the8472 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(weapon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(weapon)
- bbctol 10y agoI'm a little surprised that there's anything left to find on the wreck! I guess I've really underestimated the difficulty of underwater archaeology--I would think an important site discovered in 1900 would have been scraped clean by now.
- yolesaber 10y agoIf anyone is interested in reading about Ancient Greek information technology beyond the antikythera device, this is a great post: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.html http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.ht...