JUPITERASC
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Hidden inscriptions offer new clues to the origins
of a mysterious astronomical mechanism
DECODING THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM - THE FIRST COMPUTER
After 2,000 years under the sea, the sight is stunning.
Close inspection shows traces of technology that appear utterly modern:
gears with neat triangular teeth (just like the inside of a clock)
and a ring divided into degrees (like the protractor you used in school).
Nothing else like this has ever been discovered from antiquity.
Nothing as sophisticated, or even close, appears again for more than a thousand years
AND
Solely because of a belief that ancient people couldn’t possibly build a device so complex
some claim Antikythera Mechanism is a hoax .
BUT
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project stated
that an examination at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
has found that the device is not a hoax.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...first-computer-180953979/#0xThJo2zHQ44I2HR.99