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- Gulf News Web Report
- Published: 00:09 August 3, 2008
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- It was claimed on Wednesday that a 2,100-year-old clockwork machine hailed as the supercomputer of the ancient world provided a calendar for the Olympic Games and may have had a link with Archimedes, one of the greatest names in science. The machine, called the Antikythera Mechanism was recovered from a Roman shipwreck by Greek sponge divers in 1901.
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