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

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 ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, once thought to be an advanced astronomical tool, may have been a malfunctioning toy prone to ...

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

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience ...

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

A spectacular stone head, possibly representing a bearded male deity, has been discovered in the archaeological area of the ...