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Current Music: crown me king- antikythera devicecrown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.
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It has been estimated that the antikythera mechanism was built around 87 BC and was lost in 76
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The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.
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The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.
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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.
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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.
allenfarquhar commented on the word antikythera
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
skipvia commented on the word antikythera
It's alive!
December 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word antikythera
Neat!
December 15, 2008