By building a digital model of the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists may have finally exposed a key function of the ancient device, revealing a design that required some seriously advanced thinking.

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 ...

S ince its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a celestial measuring device. It was sometimes called the oldest computer in the ...

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.

A restoration model is created to unravel the structure of the world's oldest computer 'Antikythera mechanism' made in BC by Tony Freeth / UCL A restored CG model of the ...

Antikythera mechanism's mystery solved 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 ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations. Discovered by sponge divers ...

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." ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old jumble of bronze gears and sea accretions, was recovered from a shipwreck discovered off the coast of the Greek island, Antikythera in 1900. Sometimes ...

By “it”, Dubno is referring to the Antikythera, an ancient device whose fragments were found by sponge divers in 1901 in a sunken ship near the Greek island of that name. Over the next few decades, ...

The device would come to be known as the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known complex scientific instrument. Discovered in 1900 on the wreck of an ancient Roman merchant vessel near the island of ...