Archaeologists discover the missing piece of the 2,200-year-old Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest badogue computer in the world, would have disappeared on the Aegean seabed.

Discovered in 2017 resembling greenish rock, an earth investigation revealed that it was a bronze disc of eight centimeters. It has four metal arms at each corner with holes for the pins, an X-ray revealing the engraving of Bull the Bull.

Although it is not possible to say with certainty whether there is a missing part of the mechanism, on the basis of the evidence discovered so far, it is said that it looks exactly like the other parts of the computer.

The other possibility is that it could be part of a second mechanism that has not yet been dug up or anything else.

What we know up to now is that the Antikythera mechanism was built by the ancient Greeks to calculate different astronomical positions.

It disappeared for the first time 2,200 years ago after the sinking of the ship that was carrying it near the island of Antikythera. It was rediscovered for the first time in 1901 by sponge divers, who took away their fascinating discovery on dry land, where archaeologist Valerios Stais investigated at the National Museum of Archeology in Athens.

Since then, scientists have discovered that the computer can perform basic mathematical functions and accurately track the movements of the sun, moon, planets, and constellations, as well as the synchronization of the equinoxes and eclipses.

The site of discovery has since been both explored and looted extensively. Items found include bronze and marble statues, coins, a sarcophagus lid and furniture.

In addition to the importance of the mechanism itself, Sarah Bond, an badociate professor of clbadics at the University of Iowa, says her discovery is important to archeology as a whole.

"The Antikythera mechanism is an important object in the history of ancient technology, but it is also a prism for following the evolution of archeology as a professional field." She said.

"It reveals the advanced astrological instruments created and used by the old engineers, but the extended nature of the underwater excavation reveals archaeological advances in digitization, 3D modeling and many other sophisticated approaches to reconstruction and badysis. # 39; s computer. "

The exams on the bronze record continue.