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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2008

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.

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  • V Ling

    There are a number of disasters that contributed to the obstruction of scientific progress:

    Peloponnesian wars

    Great Migration

    Dark Age chaos

    Battle of Baghdad (1258)

    And arguably WWII bombings.

    How many countless documents and discoveries have been lost over the millenia......

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  • Chris Tsagkas

    Mankind has taken a wrong turn after started believing in talking snakes instead of talking geniuses like Pythagoras and Thales.

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  • wu1ming9shi

    it isn't christian religion that is to blame. but the romans themselves and by the romans i mean emperor constantine, he made christianity the state relgion and chose witch "branch" of christianity to take as state religion. If he had chosen for nestorianism. the world would have looked a lot different. because they don't believe in jezus as a deity but in the nature of christ's humanity.

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  • Joel Norgren

    Go fuck yourself sir :)

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  • DetectiveJelly

    Pythagoras was most likely insane and didn't even come up with a^2+b^2=c^2. Not to mention it was more a cult that had absurd rules like "don't pee towards the sun", or else you would be burned at the stake.

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  • InflatableConan2

    The original "Missing Link"

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  • José Ignacio Llamas C.

    Marvellous. I watch this documentary in TVE (Spain) four days ago. Before it I dint´t know about it.

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  • TeagueSR

    No-one doubts that those idiots destroyed probably the most important pieces of knowledge in the world. Ever. But say I go out and murder someone by shooting them in the face. Are you going to arrest me? Or the gun? By your standards (and the other guy) you would arrest the gun, while I was the one clearly at fault.

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  • Jason Mansfield

    "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." ROMANS 1:20

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  • timevampire83

    I think Julius Caesar was the one responsible--a pagan if that the correct word--for burning Alexandria.

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  • Cicrosed

    He's right. Christian destroyed, for example, the Great Libraries of Alexandria - where the most important knowledge in the world at that time, was stored. The crusade burned everything with no remorse.

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  • timevampire83

    idiot!

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