Raúl Pérez Enríquez explained that the Monumental Antikythera Mechanism has the purpose of training new physicists and scientists and supporting research processes. In reconstructing the ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared device discovered off the coast of the Greece in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog ...