Antikythera Olympic connection

The Antikythera mechanism still deserves to be better known, so if the discovery that it also was calibrated to track the four-year cycles of the various ancient Greek games -- the Olympic being only one -- temporarily overshadows all the other amazing things it could do, who's to complain?

There are many writeups of this story, but if you want the full picture, go straight to the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project website.

Posted by David on July 30, 2008 9:33 PM