This is the real story of the Antikythera Mechanism. The first underwater archaeological investigation, the oldest known analogue computer and the only scientific instrument that has survived from ...

As a result, they successfully developed a new concept spectrometer technology that can accurately measure light across a broad range of visible to infrared (440–1,300 nm) with a high resolution ...

11 facts about the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism This ancient invention was way ahead of its time. Updated: May 31, 2025 03:13 AM EST ...

New high-resolution laser device reads millimeter-scale text from a mile away by Sanjukta Mondal, Phys.org edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Antikythera mechanism fragment A. Credit: Marsyas / CC BY 2.5 In a groundbreaking paper titled “Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism’s Central Front Dial Parts – Division and Placement of the ...

Not only did the Antikythera Mechanism display the movement of the sun, but it also predicted solar eclipses. There was also a so-called Games dial, which kept track of four-year periods corresponding ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...

The Antikythera mechanism (205 B.C.E.), in the collection of National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.

The Antikythera Mechanism, once hailed as the world’s first computer, is once again at the center of debate among scientists and researchers. A recent study published in “arXiv” sheds new light on ...

In 1901, sponge divers discovered an ancient shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the recovered materials, a corroded lump of metal caught the eye of archaeologist ...

New research adds a twist to the story of this famous device, suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack. The triangular shape of ...