The first analog computer in the history of mankind was discovered by Minoans, according to researcher of Aegean scripts, Minas Tsikritsis.
According to Dr. Tsikritsis, the Minoan object, discovered in Palaiokastro, Sitia, in 1898, preceded the "Antikythera mechanism" by 1.400 years, and is the first analog computer in history, and indeed a portable one.
"While searching for Minoan findings with astronomical illustrations at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, we discovered a stone matrix from the area of Palaiokastro, Sitia. Stefanos Xanthoudis and Arthur Evans had referred to this matrix, stating the fact that the carved symbols on its surface are connected to the Sun and the Moon", Tsikritsis points out.
'If the user of the disk were to use as instruments a needle and a clip, elements which appear on the imprint of the stone tile, and noted, every two weeks, the edge of the shadow when the Sun culminates, then, by using the Ω-omega angle, he could record the latitude of the place of his location. So in a future departure from this place in the north, by finding the angle of divergence of his location, he could, by observing the shadow of the needle, in the corresponding week, determine how much he had headed north, so as to be able to come back'.
The ancient Minoan computer continues to function today, and is used to predict eclipses.
Based on Dr. Tsikritsis' research, the Sitia finding is often connected to Britain's famous Stonehenge. "Stonehenge is essentially a large-scale depiction of this or some other similar computer".
Translated and edited by: Yallou