Several millennia ago, a Greek ship sank off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea called Antikythera. It was carrying statues, coins, and one mysterious shoebox-sized object.<\/p>\n
When sponge divers eventually discovered the shipwreck in 1900, they called that small, corroded hunk of bronze the \u201cAntikythera Mechanism<\/a>\u201d\u2014and soon realized that it was a shockingly advanced astronomical calculator. That\u2019s the hook behind one of Pop Mech\u2019s greatest hits, \u201c2,000 Years Ago, the Greeks Built What May Be the World\u2019s First Computer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch editors Andrew Daniels and Jamie Sorcher dig into how this ancient device worked, who might have built it (hint: it might have been a Pop Mech All-Star) and why there\u2019s still so much mystery around its origins. The Antikythera Mechanism tracked planetary motion, predicted eclipses, and even included a dial for the Olympics\u2014all centuries before gears were even supposed to exist.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Andrew and Jamie also talk about why no other versions of the device have ever been found, and how that\u2019s kept the debate alive for so long. Was this the pinnacle of ancient engineering, or something much stranger?<\/p>\n