Antikythera

American  

[an-ti-ki-theer-uh, ahn-dee-kee-thee-rah] / ˌæn tɪ kɪˈθɪər ə, ˌɑn diˈki θi rɑ /

Greek Andikithira

noun

1. an island in the eastern Mediterranean, northwest of Crete: archaeological site. 8½ sq. mi. (22 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

The crew decided to recover as many of the artifacts that lay beneath the waters off Antikythera as they could.

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And aside from the weather, there was what many regarded as an even greater challenge: the Antikythera wreck was about 197 feet down.

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A large portion of the wreck was covered with enormous boulders, which had broken away from the cliffs that lined Antikythera’s shore sometime during the two thousand years the wreck had lain on the seabed.

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The excavations of the Antikythera shipwreck, in 1900, marked the beginnings of underwater excavations carried out in what is regarded as a technologically primitive manner.

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By the time the suit had finished making its contributions to the 2014 Antikythera excavation, archaeologists there were convinced that they had been introduced to one of the most advanced “tools” ever created to aid them in their vital and challenging work.

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