The Antikythera mechanism was built around 2,200 years ago. It was found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. The ship likely sank around 65 B.C.

The Antikythera Mechanism, often called the world's oldest computer, is a 2,000-year-old artifact discovered in 1901 in a submerged shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.

In the past, with only analog technology, time and place required mechanical gearing. Below is a recreation of the Antikythera mechanism. The original Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in a ...

A lost piece of the world’s oldest analog computer (the Antikythera mechanism an ancient Greek device designed to calculate astronomical position) may have been discovered.

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 computer ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ...

Since its discovery over a century ago, the Antikythera Mechanism has had scholars scratching their heads over how the Greeks managed to build a mechanical computer. But now researchers claim that ...

Built some time between 200 BC and 60 BC, the Antikythera mechanism is the oldest known computer mechanism in existence. This ancient, geared device for tracking the heavens is in pretty bad shape ...

A piece of the Antikythera Mechanism (Picture: Getty Images) Google’s Doodles throw up all kinds of interesting anniversaries, and today’s is as fascinating as any, celebrating the 115th ...

— -- Archaeologists had long known the Antikythera Mechanism, a bronze relic pulled from a Roman shipwreck, had been an astronomical calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict phases of ...

(they could have, you know. They had all the bits), I have nothing but love for the Antikythera Mechanism - the 2000 year old precision clockwork astronomical device discovered in a Grecian shipwreck.

These archaeologists, astronomers and historians have spent the last decade on this quest, slowly deciphering the secrets Item 15087, also called the "Antikythera Mechanism," holds.