Articles for tag: ancient science, Ancient Technology, Antikythera mechanism, historical inventions, shipwreck artifacts

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What Researchers Found Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck Computer

Suhail Ahmed

  Picture yourself plunging through Mediterranean waters, expecting another routine sponge-diving expedition. Instead, you stumble upon bronze fragments that will challenge everything historians believed about ancient technology. Captain Dimitrios Kontos and a crew of sponge divers from Symi island discovered the Antikythera wreck in early 1900, and recovered artefacts during the first expedition with the ...