The 2,000-Year-Old Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism Mystery | AFKinsights

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]May 17th, 1902.

[00:00:03]Off the coast of Greece, a discovery is about to break history.

[00:00:07]Amidst the rot of a Roman shipwreck, Valerios Stais spots [music] a glimmer of brass.

[00:00:13]But this was no ordinary debris.

[00:00:16]It was a machine that shouldn't [music] exist.

[00:00:19]Go back 2,000 years. A storm rages. The ship is claimed by the Aegean Sea.

[00:00:25]Trapped in the hull, the world's first computer, a model of the heavens.

[00:00:31]For two millennia, it slept, corroding, waiting, defying time itself.

[00:00:38]When scientists peered inside, they found technology 1,000 years [music] ahead of its time.

[00:00:44]Hand-cranked, it could predict eclipses and the movement of the stars.

[00:00:49]Who built it? How was this genius [music] lost to the Dark Ages?

[00:00:53]The Antikythera mechanism, a ghost of a high-tech [music] past we are only just beginning to decode.