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Sponge divers pulled the first fragments of what became known as the Antikythera Mechanism from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901 off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera. Ever since the discovery, scientists and historians have continued to look for more artifacts from the shipwreck while also piecing together the story of what is often considered the world's first computer. Scientists figured out years ago that the device was a bronze astronomical calculator that may have helped the ancient Greeks track the positions of the sun and the moon, the lunar phases and even cycles of Greek athletic competitions. Researchers reported in 2021 they had created the first complete digital model of the so-called Cosmos panel of the 2,000-year-old mechanical device. And they found a well-preserved skeleton of a young man (possibly part of the ship's crew) that could provide the first DNA evidence from the sunken boat. The 82 corroded metal fragments of the mechanism als

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