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

Later named the Antikythera mechanism after ... turned out to be the world’s first analog computer, designed to predict astronomical events. Greece is the site of many of Europe’s oldest ...

For decades after divers retrieved these scraps from the Antikythera wreck from 1900 ... One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer.” But the X-ray images were difficult to ...

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

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism ... off the coast of the Greece in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog computer and one of the oldest ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera island in Greece back in 1900 ... the “world’s first computer” as it was referred to, embraced surprises ...

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

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 ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism ... off the coast of Greece in 1901. Arabic numerals are ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer ... the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they ...