Sentences with phrase «ancient shipwreck»

Exceptional in scale and scope, this complex project has been almost ten years in the making and tells the story of an ancient shipwreck and its recent discovery.

That dream lured Foley and his team to Crete last year, and they brought a new tool that they hope will significantly raise the chances of finding an ancient shipwreck.

We pulled over to the side of the highway, he walked back toward me, and he said, «George, I've decided I'm going to make a career as an ancient shipwreck reconstructor.»

Archaeologists studying ancient shipwrecks recently put this technique through the paces at three different shipwreck sites dated to the second and third centuries C.E. off the coast of Sicily in Italy.

Explore and discover ancient shipwrecks.

Ancient shipwrecks, pristine coral reefs, and an amazing assortment of fish and turtles.

If Flavin's work is about immateriality, Richard Serra, 70, is all about mass and menace.At Gagosian, Serra's two colossal steel structures look like ancient shipwrecks squeezed into an anemic white cube.

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The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

Two years ago we featured an incredible video of the Antikythera Mechanism — an ancient Greek computing device found in a shipwreck in 1901 — made entirely out of Legos.

In 1976, the ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau found some ancient remains there, and Foley suspected that Dia might be a fertile site for shipwrecks because its steep cliffs could be lethal to vessels caught in a storm.

So to really understand the ancients, you have to be able to understand how they approached the sea, and the only way to do that is to excavate shipwrecks.

Instead, much of the detector's flak vest is made of ancient lead obtained from a 2,000 - year - old Roman shipwreck.

In ancient Greece, the chimera was a bad omen, appearing before shipwrecks, volcanoes, and other disasters.

It could allow researchers to pin down the contents of amphorae found on a specific shipwreck, for instance, and then calculate the value of the ship's cargo - offering deeper insight into ancient economies.

She mixes the finest Tahitian, South Sea, and Freshwater cultured pearls, while also encompassing sea glass, shells, stones and an exclusive presentation of ancient and shipwreck coins.

From the ancient, gravity defying rainforest to the MAHENO shipwreck, spectacular sand dunes and unique Champagne Pools, Fraser is a nature lovers delight.

As a young boy shipwrecked alone on a mysterious island, players will explore a world of natural beauty filled with wild creatures, ancient ruins and thoughtful puzzles that play with light, sound, perspective and time.

From the ancient temples of Cambodia which are overwhelmed by gigantic trees, to magnificent shipwrecks where coral reefs grow out of the decks of industrial machines, nature can grow in extraordinary ways, bringing life to forgotten spaces.