Antikythera
Americannoun
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This sequence is ostensibly there to introduce the film’s MacGuffin, Archimedes Antikythera, a real celestial calculation machine with extraordinary predictive capabilities that in the film is bestowed with some otherworldly powers.
From Washington Times • Jun. 27, 2023
Its treasures include the 3,500-year-old gold funerary mask known as the Mask of Agamemnon and the Antikythera Mechanism, a device used to track the sun, moon and planets.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023
Now that the design of the Antikythera mechanism is understood, my question is: Did it really work?
From Scientific American • May 5, 2022
The coast guard said 90 people — 52 men, 11 women and 27 children — were rescued overnight and early Friday from a rocky islet near the remote island of Antikythera.
From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021
However, what took place at Antikythera, important as it was, was purely a salvage operation.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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