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What Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets right (and very wrong) about the historical Antikythera Mechanism

  • Written by: Tatiana Bur, Lecturer in Classics, Australian National University
What Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets right (and very wrong) about the historical Antikythera MechanismDisney/ Wikipedia

At the heart of the newest film in the Indiana Jones series lies “an ancient hunk of gears”. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is based around the Antikythera Mechanism: an actual ancient Greek object that tracked the cycles of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets against the stars.

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