In 1901, sponge divers discovered a 2,000-year-old computer in a shipwreck—and it continues to baffle historians today. This ...

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 ...

Antikythera mechanism fragment A. Credit: Marsyas / CC BY 2.5 In a groundbreaking paper titled “Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism’s Central Front Dial Parts – Division and Placement of the ...

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, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But ...

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 mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its triangle-shaped teeth may finally reveal its intended purpose.