The Two Thousand Year Old Computer

In 1901 a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera off the southern coast of Greece found a mysterious object a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea The 2000yearold object no bigger than a modern laptop is now regarded as the worlds oldest computer devised to predict solar eclipses and according to recent findings calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics Following the efforts of an international team of scientists the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered revealing surprising and aweinspiring details of the object that continues to mystify