Antikythera Mechanism

Antikythera Mechanism: The Antikythera Mechanism artifact is an amazing example of the ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology found off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900 as discussed in Descent of Man at Violations.

Renowned author and skeptic Arthur C. Clarke wrote of the artefact "There is at least one ancient invention that proves beyond all doubt that one civilisation in the ancient world possessed technical knowledge which no modern scientists had previously suspected. As it was found in the sea off Antikythera, a small island north west of Crete, it is known as the Antikythera Mechanism."

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project reported in the science journal "Nature" recently that that the mechanism is an astronomical computer or orrery used to predict the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky.

How that lost knowledge was in the hands of early man remains a puzzle to our accepted view of world history. This documentary video clip shows a working model reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism.

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