But the site’s most famous find is a mysterious green gadget: the Antikythera mechanism. Known as “the world’s first computer,” the damaged object was once a bronze box that measured about ...

Argentinian scientists from the National University of Mar del Plata claim that the mysterious ancient mechanism is not ...

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.

When explorers looked through the wreckage, they found a shoe-box-size contraption ... What's more, the Greek computer was surprisingly sophisticated. The Antikythera mechanism could not only ...

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be ... would have seen it as a closed box," Jones said.

The Antikythera Mechanism, often called the world's oldest computer, is a 2,000-year-old ... it was a bronze box about 30 centimeters high that included a collection of intertwined gears.

It was here, in this unlikely setting and quite by accident, that the world's oldest computer was discovered. The Antikythera mechanism, as it has come to be known, is an artifact that seems out ...

known as the Antikythera mechanism, that is considered to be the world's oldest known analog computer. The severely corroded hand-powered device is thought to have been used to predict the ...

Last year, Graham Woan knew just how he wanted to spend his Christmas break: trying to solve the 2,200-year-old mystery of the oldest known "computer" in the world. Known as the Antikythera ...

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.