Wednesday, February 18, 2015

EXPLORING THE TITANIC OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

The barren island of Antikythera is perhaps Greece’s most remote scrap of land, just over six miles long and two miles wide, a dot on the map between the east and west Mediterranean. It has just 30 or so permanent inhabitants, who live in white houses clustered around the island’s only harbor. When Foley, an archaeologist, arrived here with his team two weeks ago, they made an offering to Poseidon, pouring wine and olive oil into the ocean in the hopes of being granted calm waters. But instead, the sea has conjured brutal storms. To see just how bad the conditions are today, Foley has driven across the headland to a north-facing curve in the cliffs called Pinakakia.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/exploring-titanic-ancient-world-180953977/#krDlrSFZxxi1clQJ.99

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