Ancient Machine Discovered
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Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
ATHENS, Greece (Dec. 1) - Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later.
A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like that 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said Thursday.
They claim to have identified a handful of puzzling metal scraps found in a ship wreck as the earliest known mechanical computing device, which pinpointed astronomical events.