This 2,000-Year-Old Machine Was WAY Ahead of Its Time – How?!
In April 1901, while exploring a shipwreck under the sea near the island of Antikythera, Greece, a group of divers found a strange object among the submerged remains near a reef. At first, the fragments of rusted and amalgamated metal seemed to belong to a common artifact. However, when they were analyzed at the National Museum of Archeology of Greece, researchers realized that they were dealing with an invention that far surpassed its time. The Antikythera Machine, as it is now known, is a complex mechanical device, comparable in size to the average laptop computer, made of bronze and precision-crafted…
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