Did Archimedes create the Antikythera mechanism? Cicero was a writer and politician around the first century B.C.E. He wrote descriptions of devices that sound quite similar to the Antikythera.

The Antikythera mechanism is not only real but a "mind-blowing" artifact, says research engineer Tom Malzbender. Working for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 2005, Malzbender conducted high-tech ...

For decades, scholars have been trying to understand the device. Some have theorized that the Greek inventor Archimedes made it, but this is unconfirmed. There are Greek inscriptions on the mechanism.

Only a German philologist, Albert Rehm, 1871-1949, approached the truth when he suggested, in 1907, that the Antikythera computer resembled the mechanical universe of Archimedes, Greek scholar ...

The Antikythera mechanism was an inspired choice for Indiana Jones‘ titular Dial of Destiny.But splitting the fake version up into two working parts easily reassembled was only a small part of ...

The Antikythera mechanism was similar in size to a mantel clock, ... The Real History Behind the Archimedes Dial in 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' June 28, 2023.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations. Discovered by sponge divers ...

In real life, Archimedes has been suggested to have been the originator of the Antikythera mechanism. However, a later study found that the device used an Epirote calendar, rather than Syracuse ...

Honorary professor at University College, London, Tony Freeth talks about his studies on the Antikythera Mechanism, which was just featured in the film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The Antikythera mechanism and its bronze gearwheels totally reconfigured the study of ancient technology. It was among a bunch of other antiquities pulled out of a shipwreck by sponge divers in 1901.

Archimedes, born in the Ancient Greek city of Syracuse, Sicily, lived from 287 to 212 B.C.E. He spent most of his life in Syracuse and died there during a Roman sack of the city, just as The Dial ...