All of this was on a device that was about the size of a mantel clock. How was the Antikythera mechanism found? It was discovered on a sunken Roman-era shipwreck near Antikythera island ...

When the Antikythera mechanism was first discovered ... pieces that resemble an old clock. Upon its discovery, a few groups of scholars were willing to call the device part of an ancient computer ...

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