NOVA: Ancient Computers
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: Information Technology, Computers
- Produced By: PBS Distribution
- Year: 2013
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 60m
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An unpromising lump of metal found in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck turns out to be an extraordinary treasure: the world's first computer. NOVA follows the ingenious detective work that painstakingly discovered the truth about the ancient Greek device: it was an astonishingly sophisticated astronomical calculator and eclipse predictor, unrivaled until the era of modern science and believed to be from the workshop of Archimedes.