More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

In 1900, a team of sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera surfaced with more than they bargained for. Among the ...

Researchers think they've solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of the Antikythera mechanism. The ancient device, found in a shipwreck, likely followed a Greek lunar calendar. They used statistical ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar. By Becky Ferreira The Antikythera mechanism, an ingenious ...

Fresh research about ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered "Antikythera mechanism ...

For more than 100 years, researchers have been trying to unlock the secrets of a mysterious gadget discovered at the bottom of the sea near the Greek island of Antikythera. With the help of ...

ATHENS, Greece — Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...

Researchers have deciphered the use of an ancient computer. It was apparently developed to help farmers plant crops on time, and to schedule religious festivals. This week, the journal Nature reported ...