Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it ...

But Scientists Still Can’t Fully Decode It Despite advancements, there are some mysteries that humanity has still been unable ...

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

A recent study conducted by researchers at the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) has revealed new details ...

For decades after divers retrieved these scraps from the Antikythera wreck from 1900 to 1901, scholars were unable to make sense of them. X-ray imaging in the 1970s and 1990s revealed that the ...

Discovered in a shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism has remained an enigma for more than a century. Several years ago, CT scans suggested that the 2,000-year-old device was an ...

BEST OF 2021: A hundred and twenty years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in Greece. What they found changed our understanding of human history. The mysterious ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate ... and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they discovered a 2,000 year-old ...

We would have reached the nearer stars.” As the first wreck ever investigated, the Antikythera ship, as it’s now known, caught the world’s attention and gave birth to the field of marine ...

An ancient mechanical device found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has become known as the world's first computer. The machine is centuries more advanced than historians thought possible, but its ...