The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Discovered by accident in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient Greek device that’s befuddled historians and researchers for over a century. Modern technology has now begun to unlock the ...

The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most mysterious and fascinating ancient inventions from the ancient world. Largely a mystery until the last few decades, the device has fascinated ...

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.

It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared device discovered off the coast of the Greece in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog ...

He had succeeded in determining that the Antikythera mechanism was worked by a crank and that at least one of its ... But to do this, they had to build a scientific device weighing more than eight ...

Last year, Graham Woan knew just how he wanted to spend his Christmas break: trying to solve the 2,200-year-old mystery of the oldest known "computer" in the world. Known as the Antikythera ...

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 ...

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 ...

Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism ... he relies on evidence locked in the device itself to provide clues as to how it was produced, and to make educated ...