We tend to think of our ancestors as less smart versions of ourselves.

After all, they didn't invent smartphones or the internet, or toilet, golf, truly visionary stuff.

But actually, our ancestors were much smarter than many of us give them credit for,

and some things they have created have baffled scientists for centuries. From structures only giants could have built to a computer that predates the age of Jesus,

it's time to explore some of the oldest technologies that even scientists can explain.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

Do you know what the very first computer looked like?

You'd probably think back to the time of boxy monitors and wired mice that had rubber

balls in them, but computers existed before then, and

I mean, hundreds of years before then.

We're talking about analog computers, pre-digital devices that use the variation of an element

and matched it up on a model to help solve a problem.

Think of a slide roll, for example, which allows the user to do quick multiplication and

division.

That's a computer.

However, the very first of these computers was way more impressive than a mere math device,

and it was created more than 2,000 years ago.

The Antiquitaura mechanism is an ancient Greek computer,

which could predict everything from the exact movements of the planets to the dates of each Olympic Games.

It's the oldest example of an analog computer ever discovered made around the second century BCE.

Remnants of this big bronze device were found in Zyta, a shipwreck off the coast of Antiketheira,

well, now we know where it got the name from.

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