Team Roles Team A: The Archaeologists

As a group of archaeologists, you work with antiquities and bring to light ancient treasures hidden in the earth or sung in the seas. Your aim is to contact, understand and interpret ancient civilisations in order to make humanity familiar with its past.

1. Visit the following websites in order to gather information based on your role and try to find answers to the questions given:

http://antikytheramech.culture.gr/el/node/5

http://antikytheramech.culture.gr/el/node/6

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decoding-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-180953979/

2. If you wish, the following book about the Mechanism can be borrowed from the school library:

* Price, D. J. d. S. 1. (1974). Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera mechanism, a calendar computer from ca. 80 B.C. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.

3. Work on the Antikythera Mechanism mystery and try to find answers to questions like:

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  Where was the Mechanism found?
  
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  What is the Mechanism made of?
  
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  In what condition was it found? How is it maintained?
  
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  When was it made? Who may have constructed it and where?
  

As a group of Mechanical Engineers, you examine the application of science on the design and construction of kinetic systems, power production and transfer. A Mechanical Engineer tries to develop methods that can help his/her design, construct and put into order different mechanical systems.

1. Visit the following websites about the Mechanism and its construction, and read carefully:

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_4.htm

http://antikytheramech.culture.gr/el/node/25

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decoding-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-180953979/

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-ancient-treasures-recovered-antikythera-shipwreck

2. If you wish, the following book about the Mechanism can be borrowed from the school library:

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  Price, D. J. d. S. 1. (1974). Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera mechanism, a calendar computer from ca. 80 B.C. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
  

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  How was it restored?
  
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  What is the Mechanism made of?
  
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  In what condition was it found? How is it maintained?
  
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  What was the Mechanism used for?
  

 As a group of sponge divers, your are interested in finding more about the Mechanism. The fact that you are familiar with diving and sea extreme situations, makes it easier for you to understand more about the complicated situations that influenced the Mechanism while in the sea and the need for repairs.

1. Visit the following websites about the Mechanism and its construction, and read carefully:

http://antikythera.whoi.edu/history/1900-1901/

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-ancient-treasures-recovered-antikythera-shipwreck

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1031.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/oct/02/return-antikythera-wreck-ancient-computer

2. If you wish, the following book about the Mechanism can be borrowed from the school library:

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  Price, D. J. d. S. 1. (1974). Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera mechanism, a calendar computer from ca. 80 B.C. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
  

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  At what depth was the shipwreck found?
  
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  What was the first piece found? In what condition? 
  
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  What were the decisions taken about the recovery operation?
  

As a group of scientists that have taken part in the "Return to Antikythera" Project funded by the “Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation” in September 2014, you are interested in examining the findings of the excavation that were brought to light. Your aim is to evaluate the new results of the project and provide new evidence and explanations to the existing ones.

1. Visit the following websites about the Project and read carefully:

http://antikythera.whoi.edu/blog/

http://io9.com/archaeologists-make-stunning-discoveries-at-the-antikyt-1644816754

http://www.history.com/news/divers-excavate-greek-shipwreck-dubbed-ancient-titanic

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29557384

http://www.laskaridou.gr/en/return-to-antikythera-in-2015-may-2015/

2. Work on the Antikythera Mechanism mystery and try to find answers to questions like:

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  When did the new research take place?
  
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  What were the new findings?
  
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  In what condition were they found?
  
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  Was anything unexpected found?
  
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  What were the innovations used in this excavation?