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

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...

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 ...

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant ...

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

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

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

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

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A recent study conducted by researchers at the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) has revealed new details about the famous Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s oldest computer.