Michael Wright Reveals His Replica of The Ancient Atikythera Mechanism

Coming up tonight on Museum Secrets: Inside the National Archaeological Museum of Athens on History Television Canada, we delve into the story of a deep sea dive in the Aegean Sea in 1901 that led to the discovery of a mysterious object that was under the sea for 2000 years!

View our behind the scenes photos, from the story of the Atikythera Mechanism

How was the mechanism made? Was it possible that the Ancient Greeks had the machines required to make it? Or were its origins extra-terrestrial? – Those were some of the questions floating around, until Michael Wright, then a Curator at the Science Museum of London, decided to find out what the Antikythera Mechanism was. It took him 40 years – and in this episode he tells us exactly what the mechanism does and how he found out!

Bonus: Watch our latest webisode to learn of another mystery that surrounds a sculpture that was also found during a deep sea dive at the same location! - The answer is still being debated! - Is the sculpture Zeus or Poseidon?