The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Discovered in 1901 off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, it’s an ancient analog computer with intricate gears and dials. The mechanism, believed to predict celestial positions and eclipses ...

It was discovered on a sunken Roman-era shipwreck near Antikythera island, situated between mainland Greece and Crete. The name Antikythera means “opposite of Kythera.” The divers who found it ...

There are archaeological discoveries that have left scientists dumbfounded. Inventions occasionally paint a very different picture of our ancient world. Ancient inventions can be groundbreaking.

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The ancient Greeks established cities across the four corners of the Mediterranean. However, the Black Sea was of particular importance to them, with the area becoming a hub of the ancient Greek world ...

The history of machines in art is as old as the Antikythera mechanism of ancient Greece, as intricate as the automata of the Islamic Golden Age, and as revolutionary as the first computer-generated ...