Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck

[jdnier]

http://www.nature.com/news/human-skeleton-found-on-famed-antikythera-shipwreck-1.20632

[bbctol]

I'm a little surprised that there's anything left to find on the wreck! I guess I've really underestimated the difficulty of underwater archaeology--I would think an important site discovered in 1900 would have been scraped clean by now.

[te]

I want to know more details about a "war dolphin", but the Internet doesn't seem to know about it.

[jloughry → te]

I remember that! The ancient Greek dolphin is described pretty well here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=cauMt9vJLs0C&lpg=PA162&dq=...

[the8472 → te]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(weapon)

[beat → te]

It made me think of the William Gibson short story "Johnny Mnemonic" (the original story, not the almost-unrecognizable movie version).

[yolesaber]

If anyone is interested in reading about Ancient Greek information technology beyond the antikythera device, this is a great post: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.ht...