[LTCJ]

AD 1900 (Easter) Off the island of Antikythera, Greece, a sponge diver brings up a misshapen bronze curiosity which will in 1958, be discovered to be a computer designed to plot the movements of the sun, moon Earth and planets. The find is described as amazing as "a jet plane in the tomb of King Tut".

But not nearly as strange as a description referencing a jet plane in AD 1900, eh what?

[knews_hound]

It was referencing the Antikythera mechanism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

The level of machining skill needed to create it was once thought to be impossible for ancient peoples. A close examination revealed that it was in fact a computer that was used to forecast horoscopes years into the future.

The moral of the story is, ancient people were a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

Cheers,

knewshound