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In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded lump of bronze that turned out to be a 2,000-year-old geared computer capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, a device so sophisticated nothing comparable would appear again for another 1,400 years

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In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded lump of bronze that turned out to be a 2,000-year-old geared computer capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, a device so sophisticated nothing comparable would appear again for another 1,400 years

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Elias Stadiatis surfaced off the coast of Antikythera in the spring of 1900 wearing a copper diving helmet and canvas suit, and told his captain he had just seen a heap of rotting corpses on the seabed. The captain, Dimitrios Kondos, went down himself. What Stadiatis had mistaken for bodies were bronze and marble statues, scattered across the wreck of a Roman cargo ship that had sunk sometime around 60 BC while carrying looted Greek treasures back to Italy.
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