Ancient Artifact · 65 BC

The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck

Two thousand years ago, a Greek engineer built a hand-cranked machine the size of a shoebox that predicted solar eclipses. Nothing like it would exist again for fourteen hundred years. It's Easter, nineteen hundred, and a Greek sponge diver named Elias Stadiatis is descending one hundred and fifty feet into the sea off a small island called Antikythera.

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