Antikythera Mechanism, or "How many stories can YOU think of that fall into the categories of both Computing AND Achaeology?"
Saturday, 14. February 2009, 06:16:38
Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life
Antikythera Reborn - The Hackers of Ancient Greece
The Ancient Computer of Antikythera, as the Princeton professor Derek de Solla Price called it a few decades ago, was discovered in 1901. The discovery occurred as a part of the first major event of what we today call underwater archaeology, and it all started with the discovery of a Greek shipwreck off the island Antikythera, in between the southern tip of the Peleponnes and the Western end of Crete.
To watch a working model of the ancient clockwork device that some call the world's first computer...
Antikythera Reborn - The Hackers of Ancient Greece
The Ancient Computer of Antikythera, as the Princeton professor Derek de Solla Price called it a few decades ago, was discovered in 1901. The discovery occurred as a part of the first major event of what we today call underwater archaeology, and it all started with the discovery of a Greek shipwreck off the island Antikythera, in between the southern tip of the Peleponnes and the Western end of Crete.
To watch a working model of the ancient clockwork device that some call the world's first computer...
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