The Biblical Clock

Move over, Bill Gates. It appears that the world's first PC was invented during biblical times. It was a device so sophisticated that with a turn of a hand crank, mathematical gears mapped the positions of planets and stars. Now, more than 100 years since the discovery, experts are still vying to understand how such an advanced technology could have existed 2,000 years ago.

In recent years there have been a number of recordings with music by Giacomo Carissimi. Many of these feature his oratorios which gave the composer his fame in his own time and in modern times also. There are recordings of his best-known oratorios, like Jephte, Ionas, Job.