Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

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

The Antikythera mechanism continues to stupefy researchers who have yet to determine how it detected the movement of the ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

After 2,000 years under the sea, three flat, misshapen pieces of bronze at the National Archaeological ... It wasn’t until 2006 that the Antikythera mechanism captured broader attention.

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

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 ...

NEW research into a mysterious 2,000-year-old relic may have finally revealed its true purpose – and it’s very different to ...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) has revealed new details about the famous Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s oldest computer.

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its ...

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 ...

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 ...