Underwater archaeologists returned to the site of the famous 1st-century BC shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera earlier this summer.
In the project’s second fieldwork season, a team involving researchers from the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Euboea, and the University of Geneva, under the supervision of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, found two human teeth that will be analysed, various parts of ship equipment, and the base of a marble statue (including the bottom of the legs) beneath the waters.
A significant discovery comes in the form of the larger-than-life marble head of a bearded man, a Herakles of the Farnese type, which researchers believe belongs to the headless Herakles in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens that was recovered from the wreck by sponge divers in 1900.
