Pulled from a shipwreck off the coast of Crete in 1901, the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism has baffled scientists for decades. New research published in Scientific Reports presents a ...

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.

Researchers have developed this theoretical model to explain the workings of the Antikythera mechanism, the 2,000-old ancient Greek device that is often referred to as the "first computer." Courtesy ...

The world's oldest analog computer, the Antikythera Machine, is a gear-type machine that is said to have been manufactured from the 3rd century BC to the middle of the 1st century BC. The 'Antikythera ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most sophisticated astrological instrument. The original device, dating to the second ...

Characterized as an ancient analog computer, the object was probably used to predict planetary positions, moon phases, and eclipses. Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge ...

The 2,000-year-old, hand-powered device displayed the motion of the universe, thus predicting the movement of five planets, the different phases of the moon, as well as the lunar and solar eclipses.

Scientists have long struggled to solve the puzzle of the gearing system on the front of the so-called Antikythera mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator, perhaps the earliest ...

After 2,000 years under the sea, three flat, misshapen pieces of bronze at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens are all shades of green, from emerald to forest. From a distance, they look like ...