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

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination. Found in a ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most sophisticated astrological instrument. The original device, dating to the second ...

Pulled from a shipwreck off the coast of Crete in 1901, the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism has baffled scientists for decades. New research published in Scientific Reports presents a ...

March 12 (UPI) --Scientists have reconstructed a cosmological model to fit the complex arithmetic of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first analogue computer. One of the most sophisticated ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed this theoretical model to explain the workings of the Antikythera mechanism, the 2,000-old ancient Greek device that is often referred to as the "first computer." Courtesy ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a ...

The Antikythera Mechanism used precision-cut bronze gears to model planetary motion and predict eclipses — technology not ...

Divers also found bronze and marble statues, including of horses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 2,000-year-old Roman ...

Scientists have long struggled to solve the puzzle of the gearing system on the front of the so-called Antikythera mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator, perhaps the earliest ...