Once in every long while, archaeology makes a discovery that truly shakes things up.

Sometimes it shifts our model of what people were doing and when by centuries.

Sometimes more.

One such case was the Antichythera mechanism, an exquisite bronze instrument retrieved

from a Mediterranean shipwreck.

It's had both real and counterfeit historians in a tizzy ever since.

The truth behind the Antichythera mechanism is coming right up, unskeptoid.

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The Antichythera mechanism.

Imagine the year 1900.

The skies are lead and gray.

The dark waters all around you shiver with the approach of a distant storm.

You're in the warm Ionian Sea in the Mediterranean,

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