It was a mechanical marvel, so advanced that it baffled archaeologists and scientists for over a century. A device that would ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an analog calculator that was way ahead of its time… or was it? A new study ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming and break down.