As I write this many of us today, the world over, will
be counting the seconds as Mid Night approaches and a New Year dawns.
Time controls the rhythm of our lives like a Metronome
ticking away and measuring the pace and tempo of our existence. From time
immemorial we humans have been fascinated with the fundamental nature of time
and keeping track of it by watching the rhythmic changes seen in the celestial
heavens.
Today being the first day of 2014 AD we at Far Future Horizons are going to explore the findings of the latest research to investigate the greatest and most surprising
discovery made in the field of undersea archaeology with two very interesting
documentaries.
In 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers accidentally
stumbled on an ancient Roman shipwreck dating from the First Century BC. The
wreck produced numerous statues dating back to the 4th century BC, as well as a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it
several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea.
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| The Antikythera mechanism (Fragment A - front) |
The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern
laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest analog computer, devised to
predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing
of the ancient Olympics.
Following the efforts of an international team of
scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing
surprising and awe-inspiring details of an object that continues to mystify.
