I have given you a lot of detail over the last two Nuggets as I have focused on the instrument called the Antikythera Mechanism. A number of my readers have asked what does the word Kythera mean and is it spelt Kythera or Cythera? Well …
The Antikythera Mechanism Nuggets
The Complexity of the Antikythera Mechanism (120 BC)
In the last Nugget I shared with you some of the detail involved in the Antikythera Mechanism, an instrument made around (circa) 120 BC and yet so complex that it has taken a team of international experts years to piece together in order to figure …
Point of Fact: Were the Ancients ‘Neanderthals’?
We have been led to believe that the early humans were primitive. The worldview we pick up from school comes from the evolutionary theory of graded, incremental change from Primitive Man to Modern Man. From an anthropological point of view the Neanderthals were a primitive …