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The Two Thousand Year Old Computer | ||
Thursday 10th May 2012 @ 9:00pm, BBC4 | ||
The efforts of an international team of scientists to solve the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism. The 2,000-year-old device was recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901, and is believed to be the world's oldest computer. The object appears to be designed to predict solar eclipses, and according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. | ||
More information at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlkcq. | ||