It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may ...

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

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

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

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

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether ...