{"id":879,"date":"2023-11-21T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/daily-news\/?p=879"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:57:59","slug":"bulvinar-neque-laoreet-suspendisse-interdum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/bulvinar-neque-laoreet-suspendisse-interdum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Greece&#8217;s Impossible Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1901, sponge divers exploring a Roman-era shipwreck off a small Greek island pulled up a corroded lump of bronze that looked, at first glance, like scrap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would take almost a century of study, and eventually X-ray imaging, to reveal what it actually was: a geared mechanical device of extraordinary precision, built more than 2,000 years ago, capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the movements of the sun, moon, and possibly the planets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"technology-ahead-of-its-time\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technology Ahead of Its Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing of comparable complexity is known to have existed again in Europe for over a thousand years. The device&#8217;s more than 30 interlocking bronze gears rival clockwork that wouldn&#8217;t reappear until the Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historians still debate exactly who built it and how the knowledge behind it was lost. What&#8217;s certain is that ancient engineering was far more sophisticated than popular imagination usually gives it credit for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If a machine like this could be forgotten for two millennia, what else from the ancient world are we still missing?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1901, sponge divers exploring a Roman-era shipwreck off a small Greek island pulled up a corroded lump of bronze that looked, at first glance, like scrap. It would take almost a century of study, and eventually X-ray imaging, to reveal what it actually was: a geared mechanical device of extraordinary precision, built more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-hot"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}