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
Antikythera is an island between mainland Greece and Crete, its name meaning “anti-Kythera,” or the opposite of a nearby island by that name.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
In the University College London Antikythera Research Team, our two Ph.D. students are exploring the issues he raises.
From Scientific American • May 5, 2022
The two ships and their crews had left the sponging waters in mid-April and were now sailing in a channel between the Greek islands of Antikythera and Crete.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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