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“An ordinary man
pursuing extraordinary knowledge.”
Jordan
Maxwell continues as a preeminent researcher and speaker in the fields
of secret societies, occult philosophies, and ufology since 1959. His
work is not only fascinating to explore, but too important to ignore.
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More than a hundred years ago an extraordinary mechanism was found by
sponge divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera.
It astonished the whole international community of experts on the
ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it an orrery or an astronomical
clock? Or something else? For decades, scientific investigation failed
to yield much light and relied more on imagination than the facts.
However research over the last half century has begun to reveal its
secrets. It dates from around the 1st century B.C. and is the most
sophisticated mechanism known from the ancient world. Nothing as
complex is known for the next thousand years. The Antikythera Mechanism
is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and
operates as a complex mechanical “computer” which tracks the cycles of
the Solar System.
A new paper from the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project (AMRP)
is published in the prestige science journal Nature on July 31st 2008.
It reveals surprising results on the back dials of the Antikythera
Mechanism – including a dial dedicated to the four-year Olympiad Cycle
of athletic games in ancient Greece.
The research team has also deciphered all the months on the Mechanism’s
19-year calendar, revealing month names that are of Corinthian origin,
probably from a Corinthian colony of the western Hellenic world -
overturning the previous idea that the Mechanism was from the eastern
part of the Mediterranean. For the first time we have direct evidence
of its cultural origins.
Additional research has also transformed our understanding of the
Mechanism’s sophisticated eclipse prediction dials. These results have
extended the previous work of the AMRP on the complex structure of the Mechanism’s gears and dials and have added new and intriguing cultural and social dimensions.
