An Ancient Device Too Advanced to Be Real Gives Up Its Secrets at Last
Researchers present what they’ve learned now that they can read the tiny text inside the Antikythera mechanism.
Dated somewhere between 150 to 100 BC we've now confirmed that the Antikythera mechanism was capable of predicting the positions of the planets with which the Greeks were familiar—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—as well as the sun and moon, and eclipses. It even has a black and white stone that turns to show the phases of the moon.
Made by someone who believed the earth was not flat
I expected this to be some conspiracy theorists ramblings but this is actually a good article and it is amazing how much people achieved at what seems like a relatively primitive Era.