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StoneRed

The StoneRed project (SR) is a wide-area curiosity retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to one interesting document per day.

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The Screening Room / Lost Worlds & Ancient Mysteries

Ancient Computer

2013 · 60 minutes · Colour

[FILM: Ancient Computer, 2013]

How modern X-ray imaging decoded the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,000-year-old geared calculator pulled from a Greek shipwreck.

Streaming from YouTube, from the producer’s or official distributor’s own account. Watch it there ↗

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COLOUR48 min Lost World of PompeiiTimeline

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