[Dave] decided to build a wooden version of the Antikythera Mechanism as a proof of concept ... are worth combing through just to see the pictures of [Dave]’s progress and all of those ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest mechanical computer in humanity. The replica ...

After in depth research on the remnants of the eclipse predictor as retained by the Antikythera mechanism, scientists came to the conclusions that the mechanism took calculations that determined ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars ...