The device appears to be a geared astronomical calculation machine of immense complexity. Over the decades the original mass split into 82 fragments, leaving a fiendishly difficult jigsaw puzzle for researchers to put back together. The lump is known as the Antikythera mechanism, an extraordinary object that has befuddled historians and scientists for more than 120 years. According to historical knowledge at the time, gears like these should not have appeared in ancient Greece, or anywhere else in the world, until many centuries after the shipwreck. Months later, however, at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the lump broke apart, revealing bronze precision gearwheels the size of coins. One object recovered from the site, a lump the size of a large dictionary, initially escaped notice amid more exciting finds. Soon after, their discovery prompted the first major underwater archaeological dig in history. The “dead naked people” were marble sculptures scattered on the seafloor, along with many other artifacts. When the storm subsided, they dived for sponges and chanced on a shipwreck full of Greek treasures-the most significant wreck from the ancient world to have been found up to that point. They had sheltered from a violent storm near the tiny island of Antikythera, between Crete and mainland Greece. In 1900 diver Elias Stadiatis, clad in a copper and brass helmet and a heavy canvas suit, emerged from the sea shaking in fear and mumbling about a “heap of dead naked people.” He was among a group of Greek divers from the Eastern Mediterranean island of Symi who were searching for natural sponges. Important places in Middle-earth's history and in the The Lord of the RingsĪ detailed history of Middle-earth, from the creation of the world to the War of the Ring.Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology The major characters and races you'll meet in the The Lord of the Rings Life and works of the man who created Middle-earthįor those of you that need to brush up on your Middle-earth lore, we offer a guide to characters and places as well as a timeline of Middle-earth history.
Bringing Middle-earth to the Silver Screenĭirector Peter Jackson takes on The Lord of the Rings and makes cinema history.Now, nearly 50 years after it first captivated readers, it comes to cinematic life in a three-film motion-picture event. Tolkien's classic tale is perhaps the best-loved fantasy story ever written. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie." One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
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