More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

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 ...

More than two thousand years ago, the Greeks created a mechanical device so advanced that it still remains a mystery to ...

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Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar. By Becky Ferreira The Antikythera mechanism, an ingenious ...