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The Antikythera Mechanism

A corroded lump of bronze pulled from a Roman-era shipwreck turned out to be a geared astronomical calculator more sophisticated than anything else built for the next thousand years.

GreeceRecovered in 1901 from a wreck dated c. 70-60 BCE; mechanism itself dated to roughly 150-100 BCE7 min read

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American HistoryCC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)