The Antikythera mechanism looked like a corroded lump pulled from a shipwreck — until researchers realized it was an ancient machine full of gears, instructions, and moving parts designed to track the ...

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

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In its November 2023 issue, the Website Grunge assumed that certain science questions “won’t be answered in the next 50 years.” One of those questions was about the Antikythera Mechanism. The writer, ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not. Reading time 3 minutes In 1901, sponge divers discovered an ancient ...

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar. By Becky Ferreira The Antikythera mechanism, an ingenious ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an analog calculator that was way ahead of its time… or was it? A new study ...

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 ...

Antikythera is a diamond-shaped island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated between Greece's mainland and the island of Crete. It's small, covering just 8 square miles, and the population holds stable ...

Astronomers at the University of Glasgow have offered new insights into both the craftsmanship and how a 2,000-year-old computer was used during the time of the ancient Greeks, and it’s all thanks to ...