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Description: Paper on the 1st century BCE astronomical device found off the southern coast of Greece, presented by Rob S. Rice at the USNA Eleventh Naval History Symposium.
Rob S. Rice USNA Eleventh Naval History Symposium Paper for Collected Volume USNA Eleventh Naval History Symposium Physical and Intellectual Salvage from the 1st Century B.C. At some time around 80 B.C. a heavily laden merchant ship sank to the bottom of the sea off the Southern coast of Greece. After two millennia, materials from that vessels cargo have combined with the work of several scholars to allow wider speculation on the subject of seafaring in Greek and Roman antiquity. The objective of this treatment of the chain of events involved is to provide a useful survey of early and modern underwater archaeology and the mechanics of artifact preservation and interpretation as well as to offer conclusions drawn from the data presented here concerning ancient celestial navigation and the island of Rhodes. The united efforts of a wealthy Roman, a frightened Greek sponge diver, an English physicist, and an American naval historian have combined to allow some further inquiry into civilian and military seafaring in the first century before Christ.
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