One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer ... wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. And James Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University ...

Scientists are fascinated by a 2000-year-old device, called the ... combining cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato's Academy, and ancient Greek astronomical theories.” ...

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 ...

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.