Antikythera mechanism.
“Nothing like this instrument is preserved elsewhere. Nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific text or literary allusion.”
This device is an “out of place” object from the ancient past. It had no know antecedent and was absolutely rejected as be absurd to think of it as anything ancient when it was discovered.
Widely known as history’s first computer, the over 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism was discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Crete in 1901.
It is speculated that ancient Greeks once used this mystifying device to track the planets, predict eclipses, and study the waxing and waning of the Moon.
But researchers aren’t sure how the Greeks built it — or why this technology disappeared from human history for a thousand years afterward.
Just as important is what were the technologies that lead up to it and where are they?
If discovered today a YouTube “debunker” would do a “take down” video for likes and subscribes laughing it off as a Mylar Birthday balloon with a high five and chuckle with their cult.
And we will once again forget our past.
ChatGPT: Here is the generated image representing what the Antikythera mechanism might have looked like during its time of use. The visualization depicts a complex arrangement of bronze gears and dials within a wooden frame, complete with ancient Greek inscriptions and signs of age-related wear and corrosion.
