When the Antikythera Mechanism was first discovered ... Additionally, all of the designs and schematics for this build are open source for anyone to build or modify as they would like, although ...

This diagram shows how the surviving fragments would have fit into the device. The mechanism was about the size of a shoebox and contained a complex system of gears on the inside, which turned ...

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant jamming. And the secret to its true purpose, according to new research ...

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 ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. © Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via ...

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 ...

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.

These techniques allowed researchers to tell how many holes there were in one of the broken rings of the Antikythera mechanism, the ancient computer featured in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

One of those questions was about the Antikythera Mechanism. The writer, Mikael Angelo Francisco, asked: “Why was the Antikythera Mechanism so ahead of its time?” It won’t take 50 years to ...

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 ...

Researchers think they've solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of the Antikythera mechanism. The ancient device, found in a shipwreck, likely followed a Greek lunar calendar. They used statistical ...