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

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In 1900, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera discovered an ...

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from the ...

An artifact recovered in 1901 has new meaning after its latest examination found it was used to teach ancient Greeks about our place in the cosmos. Found in the wreck of an ancient merchant ship that ...

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

A team of scientists at the University College London has shed new light on the Antikythera Mechanism – the world's first computer and one of the ancient world's greatest technological mysteries.

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 ...

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

In October 1900, a team of sponge divers led by Greek Captain Dimitrios Kondos ran afoul of a severe storm in the Aegean Sea. Rather than risk a perilous journey through roiling waters, Kondos and his ...