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The Antikythera Mechanism

In 1900, a sponge diver named Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a Roman cargo ship located near to cape Glyfada in Potamakia, 60m undersea and 30m from the shore of the small island of Antikythera, near Crete, Greece. What made the greatest impression on him as he returned to the surface were the statues [...]

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