Fact-checking 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny': Is the Antikythera mechanism real?

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Does the 'Dial of Destiny' in the new 'Indiana Jones' movie really exist? And did Greek inventor Archimedes actually invent the Antikythera Mechanism?

a mission to track down the titular dial that"could change the course of history," his goddaughter Helena says.

"It has the consistency almost of a wafer cookie − like if you even lifted it, stuff would fall," says Malzbender."But it's probably the most significant technological artifact of the ancient world ever found." "The mechanism calculated the dates of lunar and solar eclipses, modeled the moon’s subtle apparent motions through the sky ... and kept track of the dates of events of social significance, such as the Olympic Games," Freeth wrote."Nothing of comparable technological sophistication is known anywhere in the world for at least a millennium afterward."

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