The clock can be the rotation of a planet ... King Arthur's daughter Gweneth slept for 500 years under Merlin's spell. Ancient legends of time distortion are, in fact, quite common.

Functionally, clock towers are all but redundant today. Yet new ones keep coming up from time to time. This is because beyond ...

Crammed inside, obscured by corrosion, are traces of technology that appear utterly modern: gears with neat triangular teeth (just like the inside of a clock ... it “an ancient Greek computer.” ...