This mysterious ancient computer has a ‘calendar ring’ that followed the lunar year
New research into ripples in the fabric of space-time suggests that a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered Antikythera Mechanism was recovered in pieces from a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea in 1901, sparking more than a century of research into how the device came to … Read more