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  • Current Music: crown me king- antikythera devicecrown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005

  • The antikythera mechanism is currently housed in the Greek National Archaeological Museum in Athens and is thought to be one of the most complicated antiques in existence.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • It has been estimated that the antikythera mechanism was built around 87 BC and was lost in 76 BC No one has any idea about why or how it came to be on that ill-fated cargo ship.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • The antikythera mechanism is currently housed in the Greek National Archaeological Museum in Athens and is thought to be one of the most complicated antiques in existence.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • It has been estimated that the antikythera mechanism was built around 87 BC and was lost in 76

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • The antikythera mechanism is currently housed in the Greek National Archaeological Museum in Athens and is thought to be one of the most complicated antiques in existence.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • It has been estimated that the antikythera mechanism was built around 87 BC and was lost in 76 BC No one has any idea about why or how it came to be on that ill-fated cargo ship.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

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  • A Greek island between Kythera and Crete, it gives it's name to the Antikythera wreck found off the shore of this island, and to the Antikythera mechanism, a mechanical astronomical calculator dated before 100 BCE.

    December 3, 2006

  • It's alive!

    December 13, 2008

  • Neat!

    December 15, 2008