The Anti-Kithara Mechanism

A lot of the setting is around an archaeological dig in all coma. Archaeology also operates as a kind of, as sort of hopefully reasonably cheerful metaphor for a particular way of investigating things. Could you talk a little bit about the anti-Kithara mechanism? I've never been quite sure how one says this - it's basically something that was dug up. But damn, Deafone can be quite sure what that is.