A 2,100-year-old bronze Babylonian star decoder discovered in Oman in 1902 predates the famous Antikythera mechanism by 300 years, featuring cuneiform inscriptions and gear systems that predicted monsoons 14 months ahead and mapped Jupiter's orbit with 0.0008% error, demonstrating that ancient Babylonian astronomy achieved remarkable precision centuries before Greek technology.
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210 BCE Babylonian star map predates Greece’s Antikythera by 300 years #ShortsAdded:
In 1902, a British archaeologist pried open a tomb in Oman and froze. Inside [music] was a 2,100-year-old bronze machine predating the Antikythera by 300 years, and it wasn't Greek. This wasn't a clock.
>> [music] >> It was a Babylonian star decoder inscribed with cuneiform that shouldn't exist [music] in Oman. The locals called it the storm breaker because it predicted monsoons 14 months ahead.
And here's the kicker. The gears align to Jupiter's orbit with 0.0008% error. In 210 BCE, the Antikythera, 150 BCE, but this device, it's older. It's non-Greek. It's impossible, and the inscription [music] mentions a lost
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