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Unit 4 An Ancient Shipwreck

About 2,000 years ago, a large ship carrying expensive items from Greece to Rome sank off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera during a storm. In 1900, divers found artifacts from the shipwreck including the Antikythera mechanism. In 2017, archaeologists returned and discovered more artifacts, including a metal statue arm depicting a Greek thinker and a metal disk with an image of a bull. The archaeologists believe this is the largest collection of shipwreck artifacts in the area and plan to continue excavations to learn more about the sunken ship and its treasures.

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Unit 4 An Ancient Shipwreck

About 2,000 years ago, a large ship carrying expensive items from Greece to Rome sank off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera during a storm. In 1900, divers found artifacts from the shipwreck including the Antikythera mechanism. In 2017, archaeologists returned and discovered more artifacts, including a metal statue arm depicting a Greek thinker and a metal disk with an image of a bull. The archaeologists believe this is the largest collection of shipwreck artifacts in the area and plan to continue excavations to learn more about the sunken ship and its treasures.

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Unit 4: An Ancient Shipwreck

Narrator: About 2000 years ago, off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera, a large ship
was sailing to Rome, filled with many beautiful and expensive items. As it passed the island,
the ship was hit by a storm and sank.

In 1900, some divers found some interesting objects at the shipwreck. Among the items was
the Antikythera mechanism: a machine used to study the stars. Some call it an ancient
computer. But the story doesn’t end there.

In 2017, a new team of archeologists returned to the area where the ship had sunk. There,
they dove into the water and searched the seabed. Soon, they had found many ancient
artifacts. One of these artifacts was an arm from a metal statue. The archeologists carefully
moved the arm off the seabed and out of the water. Later, on their boat, they studied it very
carefully. The team think the statue is of a Greek thinker.

Another treasure found from this shipwreck was a metal disk. Just like the statue’s arm, the
disk was brought out of the water and studied. On the disk is a picture of a bull. But no one
knows what the picture means or what the object was used for. In the following days, the
archeologists found many more artifacts from the shipwreck. They think Antikythera has the
area’s largest number of shipwreck artifacts. So they plan to keep looking so they can
understand more about the ship that sank here and the treasures it carried.

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