By: Aidan LeBlanc ’23 and Allison Hochstetler ’23
The large-scale reproduction of the Antikythera Mechanism in the DPU Classics suite demonstrates how this ancient artifact, found in a shipwreck deep in the sea, was designed to track and display multiple calendars from the ancient Mediterranean world. It is the most complex piece of machinery ever discovered from antiquity. It was also featured as the ‘magical time-traveling’ device in the 2023 film: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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