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 ...

The Antikythera mechanism, as it has come to be known, is an artifact that seems out of sync with the historical timeline as we're familiar with it. As the first computer that we know of ...

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 ...

This artifact, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism, stands as a testament to the technological prowess of ancient Greece, challenging our preconceptions about historical mechanical engineering ...

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a celestial measuring device. It was sometimes called the oldest computer in the ...

The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient device discovered over a century ago, has long been considered the world's oldest known computer. New research has now revealed that this remarkable artifact ...

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.

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 ...

It wasn’t until 2006 that the Antikythera mechanism captured broader attention. That year, Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University in Wales and his team published CT scans of the fragments ...