Life blooms and withers, making way for breath anew. And so it is in a far northern Scottish town on the tip of the country's Black Isle, where a Scottish dialect once full of vigor has waned and vanished. In the fishing village of Cromarty, 280 … [Read more...]
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Divers Revisit Antikythera Mechanism Wreck
Over 2000 years ago, a Roman vessel ladened with stolen Greek treasure sank near the Greek island of Antikythera. Many years later, in 1900, sponge divers hauled up a piece of the cargo now known as the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known … [Read more...]