The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

built partly to predict the positions of celestial bodies in the solar system as it was understood in ancient Greece. [Dave] decided to build a wooden version of the Antikythera Mechanism as a ...

According to estimates, the Antikythera mechanism was created about 2,200 years ago, in the 2nd century B.C. "It is the universe of the ancient world seen from a new perspective; we are talking ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera island in Greece back in 1900 ... the reality behind the Antikythera Mechanism. The previous deductions ...

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera ... some kind of intricate mechanism.