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

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

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

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

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...