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Greek ship carrying parts of the Parthenon is giving up more secrets – Livescience.com
The latest expedition by divers to the wreck of the Mentor, which sank just off the island of Kythera (also spelled Kithira and Kythira) in 1802, has recovered several pieces of the ship’s rigging, coins, the leather sole of a shoe, a metal buckle, a token for playing cards, two chess pieces, fragments of cooking utensils and other seemingly mundane objects.
When it sank, the ship was carrying marble sculptures chipped from the badly damaged Parthenon in Athens later known as the “Elgin Marbles
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