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Star Clock BC Airs on Nat Geo Jan 20 8PM

Original Antikythera Mechanism

Another fascinating program from my friends at Lone Wolf Documentary Group: "Star Clock BC" takes us back in time to the very first known computer.  And it's a lot older than anyone thought: "Move over, Bill Gates. It appears that the world's first PC was invented during biblical times. It was a device so sophisticated that with a turn of a hand crank, mathematical gears mapped the positions of planets and stars. Now, more than 100 years since the discovery, experts are still vying to understand how such an advanced technology could have existed 2,000 years ago."

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