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The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/

An academic study to better understand the function and significance of the Antikythera Mechanism. Includes an overview, detailed data on the three-dimensional structure of the system and its surface inscriptions and a bibliography.

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Iron and Steel Currency Bars in Ancient Greece

http://www.archaeometry.dk/Jern/Kostoglou,%20Maria;%20Iron%20and%20steel%20currency%20bars%20in%20ancient%20Greece.pdf

Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 3(1). The aim of this paper is to introduce new findings about the role of iron and steel in Ancient Greece.

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Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/rw/mosaics.html

Abstracts of articles by Ruth Westgate based on a complete corpus of Classical and Hellenistic mosaics (c.400 BCE - 69 CE.)

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Antikythera Mechanism

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rrice/usna_pap.html

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.

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Amphoras Project

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/project.html

A searchable database of descriptions and stamp readings of published Greek (and some Roman) amphoras, including some illustrations. Also a bibliography of scholarly work on finding, identifying, and studying Greek and Roman amphoras and the trade they carried.

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