Artifacts March 1, 2011. Lego Antikythera Mechanism It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most sophisticated astrological ...

The salvage divers working over 100 years ago also found the remains of the Antikythera Mechanism — now on display in at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens — so it's likely that both ...

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The Antikythera Mechanism is an intricate bronze construction discovered damaged and fragmented in the wreck of a cargo ship off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. Made towards the end of ...

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 ...

While the OEM part is made from the usual space-rated alloys and materials, the model is 3D printed and powered by a cheap stepper motor. That simplicity belies the ingenious mechanism revealed by ...

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.

This week in the Digital Archaeology Digest, we look at the use of Lego to model ancient technology and then explore the areas of manuscript digitization, 3D printing and the difficulty in ...

An ancient hand-powered mechanical device for predicting astronomical events has been recreated, offering a fresh understanding of how it worked. The Antikythera Mechanism is at least 2,000 years ...

The creators of the Antikythera mechanism took theories about how astronomical bodies move, and made a machine that would calculate them, which was a revolutionary idea. It is still being studied, and ...