An ancient greek “computer”
This is the story of the ancient mystery of the world’s oldest computer. Hundreds of years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the tiny island of Antikythera in Greece. Since that moment, the mysterious Antikythera mechanism has captured the imagination of archaeologists, mathematicians, and scientists.
Experts had to rethink the history of technology due to this spectacular object. It’s a clever, sophisticated machine, utterly unusual for ancient Greece. The newness of this artifact is that it could calculate and predict the positions of astronomical bodies.