NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: "There is nothing permanent except change." ~Heraclitus

How do you capture and contain something as vast as the civilization of ancient Greece? It is an impossible feat, but the attempt must be made. There is so much to be gained from the cataloguing and study of these permanent relics, vestiges of lives that survived, succeeded and changed over time.

Among the ceramics, the masks, the weapons, the tools, the many items that defined ancient Greek life, there is an exhibit of bronze gears and the remnants of a wooden box that once housed them. It is an ancient computer discovered after more than 2000 years of being lost in the sea. It is called the Antikythera Mechanism and was used to track and predict celestial movements. This exhibit is of particular interest to me as I consider the complex genius that must have been necessary to create this device as well as the fact that the technology was lost to mankind for centuries as the device lay on the floor of the sea. The technology was eventually discovered again, but not before much time had passed, time that could best be measured not in generations, but in civilizations.