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 ...

The Antikythera mechanism — an ancient shoebox-sized device that was used to track the motions of the sun, moon and planets — followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used by the Egyptians ...

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 ...

The inspiration for the titular device in last year’s blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, was an actual archaeological artifact: the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,200-year-old bronze ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination. Found in a ...

Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of the 21st century's most sensitive pieces of scientific equipment have helped cast new light on the function of the oldest ...

Several millennia ago, a Greek ship sank off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea called Antikythera. It was carrying statues, coins, and one mysterious shoebox-sized object. Watch editors Andrew ...