50 Underwater Discoveries That Shocked The World

Antikythera Mechanism

Antikythera Mechanism
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A shipwreck wielding a piece of technology, the likes of which had never been seen before, was found off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek Island. The discovery of the mechanism left a lot of scientists befuddled as it couldn’t be properly scanned until X-Ray imaging was invented.

This allowed scientists to discover the date the object was invented, and the reason it was invented at all. With the aid of imaging, scientists found that the mechanism was the most ancient kind of analog computer available; it had been used to map and track the planets, the Sun, and the Moon.