The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists across ...

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer.” But the X-ray images were difficult to interpret, so mainstream historians ignored the artifact even as it was championed by fringe ...

Amid the treasures retrieved, a corroded, bronze-encrusted object eventually revealed itself to be the Antikythera Mechanism—an ancient Greek analog computer of remarkable sophistication.

These techniques allowed researchers to tell how many holes there were in one of the broken rings of the Antikythera mechanism, the ancient computer featured in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Languages: English, Spanish An ancient Greek shipwreck where a remarkable analog computer was found has yielded fascinating new insights. The remains of the Roman-era shipwreck—dated to the 1st ...

As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, ...

When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like. But how do we find this out? In recent years, computer-assisted reconstructions of ...

Remember the ZEOS Pocket PC? Perhaps you knew it as the Tidalwave PS-1000. Either way, it was a small clamshell computing device that was first released all the way back in 1992, and perhaps most ...