About 120 years ago in the GNC off the coast of Greece, some sponge divers are looking

for I guess sponges because they're sponge divers and they find

what looks like some kind of oasis of dead bodies down underwater like crazy way down underwater.

And I guess they understandably freaked out because there shouldn't be perfectly preserved

dead bodies down there.

Well, eventually they call in people to figure out what's going on and what they find is something that we now refer to as the Antichithra shipwreck.

This thing is one of the most incredible archaeological finds in all of history.

This is Eat Your Heart Out Indiana Jones kind of stuff.

The shipwreck that happened about 70 years before the time of Jesus was probably something that was bound from a

wealthy destination in Greece, maybe in a state or a manner, or maybe it was an art vendor or something something or maybe it was one of these old thinkers like Archimedes or Aristotle who were working on these eccentric projects and were shipping their stuff across the sea toward the Italian peninsula and the boat goes down and all of

this incredible stuff is lost. The stuff that should just be gone forever but

it's not gone forever. Among the wreckage is a thing called the Antichithra Mechanism.

We break this thing down big time on my other podcast that I do with my buddy Destin from Smarter

Every Day over on No Dumb Questions.

That's the name of that one.

You can go and find it

maybe I'll remember to link it or whatever. But additionally to that there's a

sculpture that gets found and it's a mess but there's something to it and

this sculpture ends up being called Antichithra Ephoebe and it's a sculpture of a young man and here's what's so

incredible about that. If you've ever traveled to Rome or Greece and you've gone around to the museums you

start to recognize people

and like wait a minute that guy with the neck beard that's Nero right I've seen that one like four

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