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Little more than a handful of corroded bronze wheels and heavily encrusted gears now remains of the ancient artifact calledAfter decades of study, it's largely agreed that the millennia-old device was something of an analog computer capable of keeping track of celestial movements. Yet with only fractured fragments to go by, researchers can only guess at the more intricate methods of its operation.
"Previous studies had suggested that the calendar ring was likely to have tracked the lunar calendar, but the dual techniques we've applied in this piece of work greatly increase the likelihood that this was the case,"The mechanism was discovered by divers exploring a shipwreck off the coast of Greece in 1901.
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