Ancient Supercomputer? The Antikythera Mystery Explained | Stories to fall asleep to

Описание: For nearly 2,000 years, it lay hidden beneath the sea.

When divers discovered a mysterious shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, they uncovered statues, treasure… and something far more shocking.

A machine.

Inside a corroded lump of bronze were intricate gears — dozens of them — built around 100 BCE. Today, it’s known as the Antikythera Mechanism, and many historians call it the world’s first computer.

But how could the ancient Greeks build something so advanced?

This device could predict eclipses, track the movements of the Sun and Moon, model planetary motion, and encode complex astronomical cycles — more than 1,000 years before similar mechanical technology appeared again in Europe.

In this documentary, we explore:

• The shipwreck discovery
• How the mechanism actually worked
• Who may have built it
• Why the technology was lost
• What it reveals about ancient science

The Antikythera Mechanism challenges everything we think we know about ancient technology.

Was it a one-of-a-kind invention?
Or proof that the ancient world was far more advanced than we ever imagined?

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