Fascinating stuff. Ericw once lent me a book about the history of computers -- it was so interesting to learn about the gradual advances in computing concepts over thousands of years.

Aw, they won't reveal the inscriptions yet. I was hoping to get to dust off my ancient Greek

If the Antikythera Mechanism is indeed what the investigators believe it is, then there are further suggestions that it may be based on a heliocentric view of the solar system - highly unusual at a time when most Greeks accepted Aristotle's view that the universe revolved around the Earth.

The Antikythera artifact is one of those mysteries that never ceases to genuinely fascinate me.