Article: An ancient computer: It's Greek to me.

The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Saturday, Dec. 16:

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``Twilight Zone'' theme, please: Doo-doo-doodoo; Doo-doo-doodoo ...

We take you now to Greece, around 100 B.C. An alien civilization visits Earth ... it leaves mementos behind _ technology humankind could not have had back then ... flash-forward to 2006 ... the mementos are found. Whoa!

Here's something just as amazing: What if the ancients _ the Greeks, let's say _ were better at technology than we thought? What if they created gadgets more advanced than anything for an additional 1,000 years?

It really happened. There's this thing ...

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