THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM: A COMPUTER FROM 100 BC
Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Antikythera Mechanism — a corroded lump of bronze recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901, which sat in museum storage for two years before anyone looked carefully enough to find dozens of precisely cut bronze gears inside, making it a functioning astronomical computer 1,400 years more advanced than any comparable technology we knew existed.
This episode covers the 1900 shipwreck discovery, the decades it took for scholars to understand what they had found, the modern 3D X-ray…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.