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280px NAMA Machine d%27Anticyth%C3%A8re 1 Antikythera Mechanism may have timetabled ancient Olympic Games

The Antikythera Mechanism, a clockwork device made in Greece around 150–100 BC, astounded the world two years ago when scientists deduced how this machine was used to make complex astronomical time-reckonings. Now they say that the instrument, discovered in 1901 in a Mediterranean shipwreck, did much more than that. Researchers have been trying to decode the ...

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