Sentences with phrase «for ancient wrecks»

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The torpedo - shaped robot, nicknamed Gudgeon after a Second World War submarine, spent the first month of the field campaign surveying the entire sea floor north of Crete's main harbour, Heraklion, for any lumps and bumps that might signal an ancient wreck.

There are various ancient monoliths to discover, alien languages to learn, outposts to claim, and wrecked ships to grab for loot or try to fix up.

Exceptional in scale and scope, the exhibition tells the story of the ancient wreck of a vast ship, the «Unbelievable» (Apistos in the original Koine Greek), and presents what was discovered of its precious cargo: the impressive collection of Aulus Calidius Amotan — a freed slave better known as Cif Amotan II — which was destined for a temple dedicated to the sun.