Antikythera
Proper noun
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Antikythera
A Greek island located between Peloponnese and Crete, near Kythira.
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Another possibility is more startling: What if other objects like the Antikythera Mechanism have already been discovered and forgotten?
The level of achievement in Hellenistic astronomy and engineering is impressively shown by the Antikythera mechanism (150-100 BC), an analog computer for calculating the position of planets.
For instance, the Antikythera wreck contained a staggering collection of marble and bronze statues including the Antikythera Youth.
In the cases of Antikythera and Riace, however, the artifacts were recovered without the direct participation of maritime archaeologists.
Retrieved 2007-07-01 Quote: "The Antikythera Mechanism is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a complex mechanical "computer" which tracks the cycles of the Solar System."