It was a mechanical marvel, so advanced that it baffled archaeologists and scientists for over a century. A device that would ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming and break down.