[NoraSpinnor]

Discovered in 1901 off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera, this corroded bronze device lay silent on the seafloor for nearly 2,000 years. At first glance, it seemed like little more than a barnacle-encrusted lump. But once deciphered, the truth emerged: it is the most advanced piece of mechanical technology ever recovered from the ancient world.

Known as the Antikythera Mechanism, this intricate clockwork device is essentially an ancient analog computer used to predict celestial movements with astonishing precision. Constructed sometime between 150 and 100 BCE, it could track solar and lunar eclipses, planetary alignments, lunar phases, and even the timing of Olympic Games, all based on intricate gear trains and mathematical models that archeologists say should have been impossible for the time.

X-ray imaging and 3D reconstruction have revealed over 30 bronze gears, perfectly cut with ratios corresponding to celestial cycles. The mechanism includes a differential gear system, an innovation thought to be invented over a thousand years later. It encoded Babylonian arithmetic and Greek astronomical theories into a portable instrument that rivaled the mechanical complexity of 18th-century clocks.

This is yet another piece of evidence that suggests that the B.C. ages were far more advanced than most give credit. Knowledge was intentionally destroyed. How much is impossible to know, but the Giza pyramids alone stand as unshakeable reminders that there is more than the currently accepted narrative permits.

Some believe the Antikythera Mechanism is a fragment of a much older tradition, possibly Atlantean, Lemurian, or from an unknown sea-faring culture that possessed astronomical understanding lost in the collapse of ancient ages. This is easily within the realm of possibility, as after the last cataclysm, many survivors were seafarers in search of safe land.

What are your thoughts?
Do you think the Antikythera Mechanism was one of many?
Was it part of a priestly toolkit, or a public instrument of cosmic timekeeping?
How old do you think it might be?

[AshSongbird]

I wonder… how many voices we’ve lost to the tide. It’s wild to think something like that sat at the bottom of the sea for 2,000 years… and even wilder to realize how advanced it truly was. I think it’s waayyy older than what they’re dating it. I’m thinking maybe it was dropped then but already passed down through a bunch of generations… I think it’s pretty obvious that ancient people had some advanced civilizations and some advanced tech… different but still advanced.

[NecroHaven]

probly was way old then, human history goes way back

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