Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

Amid the treasures retrieved, a corroded, bronze-encrusted object eventually revealed itself to be the Antikythera Mechanism—an ancient Greek analog computer of remarkable sophistication.

Decades of further research revealed that the ancient device was a kind of hand-operated mechanical computer built in the ... and the work and care that Greek craftspeople put into making it ...