{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Derinkuyu: The City That Swallowed Its People Whole","description":"In nineteen hundred and one, sponge divers hauling bronze statues from a Roman-era shipwreck off a small Greek island also brought up a corroded lump the size of a hardback book that sat unrecognized in an Athens museum for a full year. Inside it were at least thirty bronze gears encoding the motions of the Sun, Moon and planets with a precision that should not have existed for another thousand years. To me, if this device was not unique, the entire timeline of precision mechanical technology must be moved back by centuries. Who had the knowledge to build it, and why did no other object like it survive?\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}