--- description: Explorers retrieved more than 50 new items this month title: New Treasures Found in 2,000-Year-Old Antikythera Shipwreck image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7422f186830452dd/698866268e06016ffd4629d5/antikythera.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # New Treasures Found From 2,000-Year-Old Antikythera Shipwreck by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 30, 2015 2:11 PM CUT  In this undated photo provided by Argo via Greek Culture Ministry on Oct. 9, 2014, a diver holds a bronze spear at the site of the Antikythera wreck off the island of Antikythera in southern Greece. In this undated photo provided by Argo via Greek Culture Ministry on Oct. 9, 2014, a diver holds a bronze spear at the site of the Antikythera wreck off the island of Antikythera in southern Greece.Brett Seymour—AP by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 30, 2015 2:11 PM CUT Two millennia after a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera, the site is still [yielding treasures](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-new-cache-ancient-treasures-180956775/?no-ist "undefined") that reveal details of life in ancient times. The wreck was first discovered by sponge divers in 1900 and has yielded fascinating artifacts ever since, including a geared mechanism thought to be the world’s first computer. This month, explorers diving on the site found more than 50 new items, including fragments of glassware and ceramics, a bronze armrest thought to be part of a throne, and a flute made of bone or ivory. Every time divers explore the area, one specialist told the _Smithsonian_ Magazine, they find something remarkable. “It’s like a tractor-trailer truck wrecked on the way to Christie’s auction house for fine art,” he said. The team hopes to learn from the new trove of relics, possibly even extracting DNA samples from the ceramics, and plans to return to the site in May. \[[_Smithsonian Magazine_](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-new-cache-ancient-treasures-180956775/?no-ist "undefined")\] ### See The Best Biology Photos Of The Year  Two Bisons on the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Lukas Gawenda  A spider at sunset in Predel, Bulgaria. Krasimir Matarov  Parasitoid wasps building clay pots in Borneo, Brunei. 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