The device tracked the motions of the sun, moon and five planets.
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations.
Whoever made the device would have had to know a great deal about astronomy, metallurgy and mechanology, Aristeidis Voulgaris, team leader of the Functional Reconstruction of Antikythera Mechanism project, told Live Science in an email. This project aims to reconstruct what the mechanism originally looked like and gain a better understanding of it. They also would have needed"great hand dexterity," he noted.
What did the Antikythera mechanism look like?The authors of the Scientific Reports article found that someone viewing the front of the mechanism would have seen dials that showed the movements of the moon, sun, lunar nodes , Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the Zodiac calendar. Antikythera mechanism shipwreckThough the ship that held the Antikythera mechanism was discovered more than a century ago, the wreck has not been fully excavated. The size of the ship that carried it is unclear and just how widely the artifacts are dispersed is also somewhat uncertain. Its location and depth make it hard to excavate, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution .
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