[Dave] decided to build a wooden version of the Antikythera Mechanism as a proof of concept ... are worth combing through just to see the pictures of [Dave]’s progress and all of those ...

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.

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the ...

Pictures captured during the event on Friday show the strangely colored lunar body large in the sky as it passed through the Earth's shadow. During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth passes directly ...

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.