If the ship had to carry statues, some up to three meters tall, they'd have to be packed well to prevent damage in transit. Ancient Finds 1 / 40 In this image made available by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on April 26, 2011, parts of a statue are seen during the excavation of an area close to the Temple of Amenhotep III, "1390-1352 BC" in western Luxor, where the largest statue of King Amenhotep III, so far. Its hull planks are some of thickest seen in antiquity, indicating the true size of the ship could be over 200 feet in length, putting it in the same ballpark as HMS Victory, the warship commanded by Admiral Lord Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar--some 1700 years after the Antikythera sailed. It's an object out of time: no other artefact as complex was built during the thousand years after the mechanism's creation--that we know of. Archaeologists discovered the Antikythera mechanism and dozens of other artefacts. The mechanism was composed of at least 30 different bronze gears and the whole thing was housed in a wooden frame that was decorated with at least 2,000 characters. Despite all its technical bells and whistles, the Arctic Explorer had to watch from the sidelines. Abandoning the historical data and information from fishermen, the team resorted to doing search passes over the area, dragging the sidescan sonar from east to west. A gale had stirred up sediment under the water, but a mix of luck and judgment allowed Harris and his divemate to find enter the water near a timber that Harris could follow "hand over hand" to the wreck proper. "There's other circumstantial evidence that points to this being the first grain carrier ever discovered, and that's the luxury goods that were carried onboard and also the presence of skeletal remains of a young woman," said Foley. "The two ships together are a designated national historic site. 5 Guildhall East Crypt. They can spend far longer underwater and go to far deeper depths than humans. A PhD student is studying the 3D mosaic, finding out the physical characteristics of the person--their height, whether they had certain diseases--and even how they died by studying fractures or burns on the bones. Ocean Discovery had won enough time to confirm the identity of the Mars and record it with the authorities. ", Cover photo credit: Kirill Egorov, MARS 2015. The flames ignited the gunpowder stored on the ship causing a huge explosion that blew out the stern of the ship and took her, and the men aboard her--the Swedish sailors and invading forces alike--to the bottom of the ocean. "That's when we saw the two brass six-pounder cannons," said Harris. When Cousteau's team had spotted the second wreck, they saw amphorae that looked probably Roman in origin--meaning the wreck could date from any time up to the fourth century BCE. The Mary Rose, a 16th century English warship and the pearl of King Henry VIII's fleet, was sunk ten years before the Mars and salvaged thirty years before it. The team had another novel piece of technology at its disposal: a 7.5-meter autonomous underwater vehicle, the Arctic Explorer. As well as documenting the outside of Erebus and its location, the Parks Canada team face the difficulty of navigating within the ship itself, mapping the location of the objects within it and any subtle associations with them. Navigating an ROV on a complex wreck site like that is hard. According to Rönnby, Mars offers "the possibility to come so close to the middle of battle. Any artefacts, such as mosaic pieces, would lend credence to the theory, but more evidence could come from the bones of passengers that died when the ship sank. So far, a not-to-scale section of the hull and one of the guns have been printed out. Johan Rönnby, head of the MARIS research institute at Södertörn University set up to study the Mars, said, "Mars is a legendary ship in Sweden, and almost everybody wanted to find it. You need to take diving technology and rebreathers and a lot of lamps, of course," said Rönnby. "I've never seen [the Massey pumps] in real life until we were face to face," said Harris. Locating a wrought-iron breech-loaded cannon, however, was enough to put the identity of the ship beyond doubt. Remains of four people on the wreck have been found so far, and more may still be on the wreck. ", Inside the Raspberry Pi: The story of the $35 computer that changed the world, Can Russian hackers be stopped? Even traces of the ancient grain may still be hidden in the sands around the wrecks for those with the right tech to find it. You are really close to the battlefield. 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