No matter how much we discover relics and documents that we decode, we will never know everything for past civilizations. We were not there to experience everything.
While it is a sad thought, it is also a challenge for many researchers to heart. The mystery that drives them to keep digging, keep together the pieces together.
One of the biggest brands of the artifacts we uncovered the ancient Greeks question is the so-called Antikythera mechanism ...
[1945002chercheurs] the Antikythera mechanism was discovered in a shipwreck near the island of Crete in 101. Since its discovery, much of the equipment has baffled.
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The prevailing theory is that the mechanism has been used as a kind of primitive astronomical computer. When it was built, it was probably able to track and display the positions of the sun, moon and planets.
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Although that the theory did not change, new research in the device turned another interesting aspect: the mechanism may have been used to predict the future ...
Flickr / Tilemahos Efthimiadis
Using the new technology, the researchers studied the incredibly small lettering engraved on the surface of the surviving parts of the mechanism.
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Among the letters are several references to the color of a future solar eclipse. Although more research is certainly necessary to verify these initial results, this is still an exciting development.
Wikipedia
(via Unexplained Mysteries)
I keep my fingers crossed that the next discovery they make of this machine is that it contains somehow the location of Atlantis.
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