X-rays probe world's oldest computer (video)

[Still Waters]

The secrets of one of the most remarkable technological finds from Ancient Greece have been probed for the first time using powerful X-ray imaging equipment, specially shipped to Athens.

The Antikythera Mechanism as it is known, is regarded as the world's oldest "computer" and is thought to have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses and record dates of the ancient Olympiad. Its remains were recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-17989915

[Timothy]

That's amazing... I just wish it was more intact.

Hopefully they can now more accurately determine its purpose and extrapolate what's left to create a full working model.