Antikythera mechanism

Mystery: Could the be even older than what mainstream theorizes?

Date conflicts

 * Smithsonian, Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Is Even Older Than We Thought, 26 Nov 2014 (dating to 205 BCE)


 * Snippet from Wikipedia's Antikythera mechanism article:
 * The is... 'believed by [mainstream science] to have been designed and constructed by Hellenistic scientists, variously dated to about 87 BCE, or between 150 and 100 BCE, or to 205 BCE,  or within a generation before the shipwreck, which has been dated to approximately 70-60 BCE.  '

Antikythera shipwreck
Antikythera is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea. It is most famous for being the location of the 1900 discovery of the, from which the Antikythera Ephebe and Antikythera Mechanism were recovered. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (sometimes described as the first mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions which has been dated to about 205 BCE. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.