Museum of Ancient Greek Technology
Located in Rhodes Old Town, the vision of the Museum is to display the technological miracle of antiquity.
Robotics and computing, steam and gas propulsion, automobile and gas automatic navigation, automation and programming, telecommunications and encryption, geodesy and mapping, utilization of hydraulics and wind energy, the application of belt drive, dentition and chain engineering and many other sciences and techniques were invented in ancient Greece.
The museum studies, highlights and presents to the Greek and international public a of paramount importance but a relatively unknown aspect of ancient Greek culture: the technology, whose primary role in development is undeniable and flourishing of any culture, let alone the ancient Greek, which gave in humanity incomparable creations that we all know and admire – from the Computer Mechanism of Antikythera to the Parthenon.
In the Museum it turns out that the course of modern technological civilization does not is an ascending development curve, as is commonly believed, but a very rapid one growth and peak during the 3rd century BC, a decline and loss of this technology in the following centuries and a gradual recovery, with the 13th century AD to level the cutting edge technology of the beginning of the 2nd BC. century.
The museum of ancient Greek technology studies, highlights and presents the technology of the ancients Greeks, an aspect of the highest importance but relatively unknown of ancient Greek culture.
The role of technology is indisputable in the development of any culture. Its evolution Western technological civilization is not an ascending curve, as is commonly believed, but a rapid growth and peak in the 3rd century BC, a decline and loss of this technology in the following centuries and a gradual recovery, with the 13th century AD. to equals state-of-the-art technology of the beginning of the 2nd century BC. century.
The purpose of the museum of ancient Greek technology is to prove that ancient Greek technology shortly before its end of the ancient Greek world was shockingly similar to the beginnings of our modern technology.
For example bolts and nuts, sprockets and rules, pulleys and belts, sprockets and chains, pistons and cylinders, hydraulic controllers and valves, programmers and automatic navigators (all parts of a modern car engine) are just a few of the inventions of the ancient Greeks that formed its cornerstones their sophisticated technology.
These legacies, the same and irreplaceable, are still the building blocks today. Elements of our modern technology, the evolution of which would be doubtful without the inexpensive and their trouble-free adoption.
It just took over a millennium of maturity for humanity to regain that admirable forgotten technology. Exploring this age that cutting edge technology does not. It proves peritrans how much more (than we think) the modern owes Technological Culture to the Greeks.
Make sure to visit the museum when you are next in Rhodes Town.
The museum is located in the heart of Rhodes Old Town and easily accessible.
Museum of Ancient Greek Technology
