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Antikythera Mechanism Part 2: by Nature Video

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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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  • Damn these dumb motherfuckers Ardashir999 and 100waterloo really had it going for eachother...8 pages of text? Holy fuck, we get it, your both so intellectually superior. You could have at least talked about it somewhere else...somewhere other than youtube

  • @Arteanor the misconception that Dynastic Egyptians were "Black" is behind the whole Afrocentrist delusion... which is in the process of becoming Archaeology's equivalent of young earth creationism. I simply can't stand the deliberate manipulation of evidence for political / ideological / religious agendas. Nobody denies an ultimate African origin for the human race (well, at least not me), but that's like saying that life originated in the oceans. Have a nice day.

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  • Aliens man. aliens

  • @rtint30 you had to wind it to use it. It didn't run by itself. It's not a clock.

    this guy made one here:

    v=_PrlERqn2Qc

  • LOL at the two morons debating here. Do you not know what Private Messages are? Who wants to read through your stupid tirade?

  • What gets me is its rarity. Can you imagine, every clan chief, rich merchant and anyone else in power would have wanted one... something so advanced would surely have become instantly popular? Maybe the one man sophisticated enough to make one had died after making this prototype? Maybe the Antikythera vessel never got to where it was going, which was to reveal it civilisation at large... so it just died, the world never to see the like of it again for over 1400 years? Amazing.

  • I assume it had to be wound every so often?

  • cool but 140 years before jesus aint that far back yo try ancient sumerian texts 6000 years before the hybrid messenger jesus walked the earth..

  • "Enormouth thignifiganth..."

  • oh awesome, i will never sleep again.

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