The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but researchers have finally unlocked an understanding of an ancient mechanical work that has been arrested for about 2,000 years. Discovered more than a ...

Fresh research about ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered "Antikythera mechanism ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

The Antikythera mechanism, often heralded as “the first computer,” has continued to baffle scientists since its discovery in a Greek shipwreck in 1901. This intricate 2,000-year-old device was ...

ATHENS, Greece — Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, often described as the world’s first computer, was a sophisticated bronze device that modelled the cosmos. Researchers have assumed that pointers were used to ...