More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

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, ...

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 ...

It was, as they say, a dark and stormy night. The passengers on the enormous ship probably didn’t realize they were in danger until the moment their vessel slammed into the cliffs of Antikythera, ...

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,100-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clocklike machine ...

Discovered in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism has long been called one of the earliest computers. For years scientists had no idea what it did, ascribing it with almost mystical functionality. Through ...

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 ...

The world's oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry, as well as flashy ...

The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most astonishing discoveries in archaeology. Salvaged from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck in Greece in 1900, the intricately geared contraption was quickly ...