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Some scholars posit that the destruction during the Roman conquest of Greece may have played a significant role in obliterating this knowledge. The burning of libraries and the possible execution of skilled artisans could very well have resulted in the severing of a crucial knowledge chain. Others speculate that high costs related to the materials used might have limited the device's replication.
Moreover, it has been suggested that the mechanism could have belonged to a select few—expert astronomers or wealthy navigators—making it a guarded secret, reserved for the elite. This raised the question of whether similar devices remain undiscovered, buried in forgotten shipwrecks or misidentified as mere historical artifacts.