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ID
2231134
Banca
BIO-RIO
Órgão
ETAM
Ano
2014
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

TEXT II

The four-thousand-year-old computer

In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. Following the efforts of an international team of scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing surprising and awe-inspiring details of the object that continues to mystify.

(From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlkcq)

The object mentioned in the title was found:

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    "In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea."

    Tradução-->Em 1901, um grupo de mergulhadores que escavavam um antigo naufrágio romano perto da ilha de Antikythera, na costa sul da Grécia, encontrou um objeto misterioso - um pedaço de pedra calcificada que continha várias rodas dentadas juntas depois de anos no mar.