The Human's are capable of incredible things.

Look no further than the small wooden box that was pulled from the waters of the Mediterranean

back in 1901, because what it held inside was a thing beyond comprehension.

Roughly the size of a shoe box, this wooden lump was first believed to be nothing more

than a storage container, but as researchers peeled back the layers and separated the

pieces, they realized it was something more.

It was a housing, a skin, if you will, that covered a small mechanical device.

Beneath the wood were encrusted stacks of small metal gears, along with a number of engraved

plates.

And over the last century, experts have worked to reassemble those pieces in a sort of

Humpty Dumpty effort to restore the original design, and what they've learned are two incredible,

unbelievable truths.

This device was crafted by human hands over 2,000 years ago, and it is the oldest known

analog computer on record.

Think of it like the innards of an old grandfather clock, but one designed to do a specific task

upon command to calculate the position of the sun and the moon, along with the current

phase of the moon and when the next eclipse would take place, all by just turning to dial

in a small hand crank on the side.

Like I said, humans are capable of incredible things.

Looking back, we have a lot to be proud of on our list of accomplishments.

When our minds are put to the test, they have the potential to alter the very world we

live in, and we've demonstrated this over and over again.

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