such as those used in the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism, which [Chris] has been rebuilding for the past years, using only period-correct tools. He’s learned a lot about the mechanism ...

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the ...

It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared device discovered off the coast of the Greece in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900. Copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project ...

For decades after divers retrieved these scraps from the Antikythera wreck from 1900 to 1901, scholars were unable to make sense of them. X-ray imaging in the 1970s and 1990s revealed that the ...

BEST OF 2021: A hundred and twenty years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in Greece. What they found changed our understanding of human history. The mysterious ...

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they discovered a 2,000 year-old ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera island in Greece back in 1900 to 1901, it has triggered many theories and research work among scientists who ...