This is the real story of the Antikythera Mechanism. The first underwater archaeological investigation, the oldest known analogue computer and the only scientific instrument that has survived from ...

11 facts about the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism This ancient invention was way ahead of its time. Updated: May 31, 2025 03:13 AM EST ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, currently housed at the National Archaeological Museum. Credit: ZDE/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first ...

By Gary Todd The Antikythera Mechanism is a bronze gear mechanism from ancient Greece that was discovered in a sunken ship near the Mediterranean island of Antikythera in 1901. New research ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, once hailed as the world’s first computer, is once again at the center of debate among scientists and researchers. A recent study published in “arXiv” sheds new light on ...

Thought to have been designed as an astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism consists of a number of pointers and gears that work together to track the movements of various celestial ...

In 1901, sponge divers discovered an ancient shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the recovered materials, a corroded lump of metal caught the eye of archaeologist ...

New research adds a twist to the story of this famous device, suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack. The triangular shape of ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a complex system of bronze gears that functioned like an astronomical clock. Although only fragments remain, previous studies have made it possible to reconstruct its ...