The tiny Greek island of Antikythera is offering incentives to families and skilled workers who want to relocate there, ...

The editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds and among them.. Twenty-one objects recovered in the recent underwater excavations on the Antikythera shipwreck will be exhibited for the first time ...

Abstract: THIS YEAR, marine archaeologists have been exploring the richest ancient Greek shipwreck of all time using 21st-century ... The ship sank off the coast of the tiny Greek island of ...

In 1902, sponge divers discovered a 2,000-year-old computer in a shipwreck—and it continues to baffle historians today. This is the unbelievable story of the Antikythera mechanism.

The small Greek island of Antikythera lies at the edge of the Aegean Sea between the mainland and Crete. In 1900, a Greek sponge diver claimed to have found a shipwreck some 150 feet beneath the waves ...

This artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. On 17 May 1902 it was identified as containing a gear by archaeologist Valerios Stais ...

Found in 1901 in a shipwreck off the coast of the island, it's considered one of the most significant technological artefacts of antiquity. The Antikythera shipwreck (circa 70–60 BCE ...

An ancient mechanical device found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has become known as the world's first computer. The machine is centuries more advanced than historians thought possible, but its ...

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest mechanical computer in humanity. The replica ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true ...