Was the Antikythera Mechanism just a toy? Find out what a recent study by the University of Mar del Plata really shows.

Poor spacing between gear teeth could cause blockages, rendering the mechanism unfit for scientific use, simulations indicate ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an ...

Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

More information: Esteban Guillermo Szigety y Gustavo Francisco Arenas, The Impact of Triangular-Toothed Gears on the Functionality of the Antikythera Mechanism, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.

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 ...

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether ...

For the study, which was submitted to the preprint server arXiv, the researchers created a virtual simulation of the Antikythera mechanism, which approximated how the box’s gears would have fit ...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) has revealed new details about the famous Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s oldest computer.