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

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

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

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

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

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

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

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

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

Pyramids and temples show precise ancient engineeringAncient tools reveal advanced science and metallurgyOld medical and ...

It wasn’t until 2006 that the Antikythera mechanism captured broader attention. That year, Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University in Wales and his team published CT scans of the fragments ...

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