The Antikythera Mechanism – an ancient shoebox-sized device used to track the movements of the sun, moon and planets – followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar calendar used by the Egyptians as previously thought, new research reveals. The Antikythera Mechanismfound by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, was made … Read more
Kyrenia ship hull during excavations. Kyrenia ship hull on the seabed off the coast of Northern Cyprus during underwater excavations in the late 1960s. Credit: Image provided to authors by the Kyrenia Ship Excavation team for use with this article, CC-BY 4.0 Cornell researchers have refined the estimated sinking period of the Kyrenia shipwreck to … Read more
Researchers from the University of Bern have successfully dated a prehistoric agricultural settlement in northern Greece to between 5328 and 5140 BC, using dendrochronology and a significant radiocarbon spike in 5259 BC, from a cosmic event known as a Miyake event. This breakthrough provides an accurate chronological reference for other archaeological sites in southeastern Europe … Read more