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Yes, the fellow Michael Wright who made it used to work at the Science Museum in London, I think.
You may be thinking of something else? The Phoenicians peak comes before this time I think? They would likely have had the knowledge that was used to make this mechanism, though.
This Antikythera mechanism was made in about 65BC and it shows the motions of the "five planets" as they understood them (with the Earth at the center) and it predicted the hour and the color of the lunar and the solar eclipses.
They suspect that the original version was built by Archimedes and this is a miniaturized version built by the Romans, probably. The x-ray and imaging technology they use are masterpieces in their own right.
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