![]() More than a millennium before 13th-century Europeans invented the first mechanical clocks, the Antikythera mechanism employed similarly complex technology-including gear wheels, dials and pointers-to chart the cosmos. Hidden among flashier finds like marble statues and jewelry was a mysterious device known today as the Antikythera mechanism.ĭated to more than 2,000 years ago, the device “is probably the most exciting artifact that we have from the ancient world,” says Jo Marchant, author of the 2008 book Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World’s First Computer. Off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900, sponge divers came across a shipwreck filled with ancient treasures. ![]()
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