The Antikythera mechanism: the world's first computer? – video
by Josh Strauss, Ekaterina Ochagavia and Fred McConne from on (#2PSHS)
The 2,000-year-old Antikythera shipwreck is considered the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century. It included ancient, ornate pottery, weapons, a skeleton that provides scientists with their first real hope of sequencing DNA from a shipwreck victim, and the famous Antikythera mechanism - thought to be the world's first computer
Images and footage courtesy of Michael Tsimperopoulos and Brett Seymour/EUA/WHOI/Argo.