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This documentary investigates the Antikythera Mechanism, a computer-like device that may have been used to calculate the movements of stars and planets. It also highlights ancient inventors Archimedes and Ctesibius. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900--1901 from the Antikythera wreck. Its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100 BC. Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear in Europe until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks were built in Europe. Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited the wreck for the last time in 1978, but found no additional remains of the Antikythera mechanism. Professor Michael Edmunds of Cardiff University who led the most recent study of the mechanism said: "This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its

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n the autumn of 9 AD Roman forces occupying Northern Germany were lured into a death trap. Over 20,000 of the world's most feared troops, their families, even their animals, were slaughtered by Iron Age tribes. The bloody massacre defined forever the limits of Roman expansion and left Europe fatefully divided, yet for almost 2,000 years the exact site of this disaster was only guessed at. Then, in 1987, a British soldier made a find that suggested the true whereabouts of the 'Battle of Teutoburg'. Today a grim picture of deception, ambush and ritual slaughter is beginning to emerge. "In the autumn of A.D. 9 Varus marched his three legions from their summer camp to a winter camp further west. The army was huge, fifteen thousand men plus a train of ten thousand women, children, slaves and pack animals. The march was scheduled to take several days, over difficult terrain, and at times the column would be up to nine miles long as they wound through narro

Peltast raffigurato su una coppa a figure nere ateniese.

Corriere della sera, inserto: La Lettura 07.10.2012 Il vero Hobbit abitava in Indonesia Telmo Pievani I resti di un piccolo essere umano trovati sull'isola di Flores sconvolgono le teorie sull'evoluzione. È un esemplare di una specie estinta dal cranio minuscolo ma capace di cacciare e usare il fuoco. Le sue origini restano misteriose, eppure fino a 12 mila anni fa convisse con i nostri antenati L'omino è dispettoso, di quelli che escono nottetempo dalla foresta a seminare scompiglio. Ne conosciamo tanti dalle favole di tutto il mondo, ma quella volta sbucò fuori, non in carne ma in ossa sì, da un sito preistorico dell'Estremo Oriente. E ad essere scompaginate furono le nostre conoscenze scientifiche sull'evoluzione umana. Nel 2003 scienziati australiani e indonesiani coordinati da Mike Morwood rinvennero, nella grotta di Liang Bua, sull'isola di Flores in Indonesia, i resti di un individuo bipede, probabilmente di sesso femminile, con caratteri

prima guerra mondiale - dirigibile americano con struttura non rigida in volo.