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Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them

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Archimedes

Archimedes was from Syracuse, a 'Greek' town on the island of Sicily. People and things are attributed as being 'Greek' due to the association with the Greek empire, irrespective of whether they were actually from the geographical location known as Greece.

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