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

The Antikythera mechanism was similar in size to a mantel ... According to Michael Wright, a former curator at London’s Science Museum who has studied the mechanism longer than anyone, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

London’s Science Museum’s curator Michael Wright pointed ... the remnants of the eclipse predictor as retained by the Antikythera mechanism, scientists came to the conclusions that the ...

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 ... some kind of intricate mechanism.