SYMHC Classics: The Antikythera Mechanism
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Today we revisit a 2013 episode. In 1900, a shipwreck was discovered near the island of Antikythera, including an assortment of luxury goods: statues, silver coins, vases ... and what turned out to be an amazing 2,000-year-old mechanism.
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| 1:05.2 | This week, we are putting out our unearthed episodes for the first quarter of 2021, |
| 1:09.8 | and to wet everyone's appetites, we thought that we would replay an episode that is related |
| 1:14.3 | to one of the things we're going to talk about. |
| 1:16.7 | That's the Antikythra Mechanism, which we first covered on the show on July 29, 2013. |
| 1:22.7 | So enjoy! |
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