The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant jamming. And the secret to its true purpose, according to new research, is ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an analog calculator that was way ahead of its time… or was it? A new study ...

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant jamming. And the secret to its true purpose, according to new research, is ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. © Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via ...

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 ...

If one were to stumble upon the thought of ancient technology, it would be hard to think of anything as advanced as the Antikythera mechanism. This tiny device which has, several times, been claimed ...

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. But researchers ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...