A bronze disc found near the shipwreck last year is likely not a cog wheel from the ancient Greek astronomical proto-computer (Brett Symour/EUA/ARGO 2017)
A bronze disc found near the shipwreck last year is likely not a cog wheel from the ancient Greek astronomical proto-computer (Brett Symour/EUA/ARGO 2017)
“Is anybody here a marine archaeologist from the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and Lund University in Sweden?! How about a marine architect?”
Is that an animal inside the disk?
Amazing...I still would love to see that ‘computer’!!
Great stuff!
No, Archaeologists Probably Did Not Find a New Piece of the Antikythera Mechanism
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How do they know? That Bull piece might be a cover plate for the antikythera gizmo!
That antikythera gizmo might have been nothing more than a really complicated alarm clock to remind a farmer to feed his livestock!
Or something.
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