In another visit to the famous shipwreck site off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera, divers discovered treasures and trinkets that apparently belonged to the wealthy.
According to Live Science, the ship carrying all these items sank in 65 BC and its wreckage was first discovered in 1900. Since, the site has been visited and analyzed on a somewhat regular basis since.
Check out a gallery of images from the dive, courtest of Live Science.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) noted in a news release that its researchers studied "more than 50 items" from the recent dive. Chiefly among the findings was what appeared to be an armrest made of bronze that could have once belonged to a throne.
"We were very lucky this year, as we excavated many finds within their context, which gave us the opportunity to take full advantage of all the archaeological information they could provide," Theotokis Theodoulou, a diving archaeologist at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, said in the release.
Also recovered was a "bone flute, fine glassware, luxury ceramics, a pawn from an ancient board game, and several elements of the ship itself." The first discovery of the shipwreck turned up other "luxury items" like marble and bronze statues, as well as the human remains of the ship's crewmembers and passengers.
"This shipwreck is far from exhausted," Brendan Foley, a WHOI marine archaeologist who co-directed the project, said in the release. "Every single dive on it delivers fabulous finds, and reveals how the '1 percent' lived in the time of Caesar."
