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Researchers find that a device recovered in a shipwreck off a Greek island was likely used to set the dates for the first Olympic games.
- LONDON (Reuters) - A mechanical brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on Wednesday. The Antikythera Mechanism was retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of An...

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