An ancient Greek astronomical calculator dating to around 80 B.C. packed dozens of interlocking bronze gears into a case ...

The world’s first computer long predates the monster machine of 1945. Like, by several thousand years. If you couldn’t tell by the name alone, the Antikythera Mechanism was a device created by the ...

Characterized as an ancient analog computer, the object was probably used to predict planetary positions, moon phases, and eclipses. Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) holds the Antikythera in Lucasfilm's ...

A shipwreck off the Greek island Antikythera revealed in 1901 a bronze mechanism over 2,000 years old that tracked lunar and solar cycles and eclipses, now seen as the first analogue computer. View on ...

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 suggests that the ...

A larger-than-life team of academic "superheroes" are delving deep into the treasure trove that is Item 15087. These archaeologists, astronomers and historians have spent the last decade on this quest ...

The precision lathe with the hooks, the bowstring, and vise visible as material is being processed. (Credit: Clickspring) We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution, when ...

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...

In 1901, a group of sponge divers searching the waters off the Greek island of Antikythera stumbled upon the wreck of an old ...

The artefact is now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and its dating places its manufacture in the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE, coinciding with the sinking of the ship that ...