The wreck was left alone again for nearly 40 years until a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) marine archaeologist named Brendan Foley (now at Lund University in Sweden) got permission from ...

By Gary Todd The Antikythera Mechanism is a bronze gear mechanism from ancient Greece that was discovered in a sunken ship near the Mediterranean island of Antikythera in 1901. New research ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

The expedition to the Antikythera shipwreck, which is located in the Aegean Sea off of Greece, was announced in a press release published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) on ...

Item 15087 wasn’t much to look at, particularly compared to other wonders uncovered from the shipwreck at Antikythera, Greece, in 1901. The underwater excavation revealed gorgeous bronze scul… ...

The report said the Antikythera Mechanism "was a complex, whirling, clockwork instrument comprising at least 30 bronze gears bearing thousands of interlocking tiny teeth.

What technology could change the way we learn about shipwrecks A new survey of an iconic ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece has revealed new treasures — and the remains of a second sunken ...

The Mouseion-University and the great Library of Alexandria provided the ideal conditions for science and the public good. The Antikythera Mechanism / Meteoroskopeion was a masterpiece of ...

The head of a 2,000-year-old statue of Hercules has been found in the world-famous Antikythera shipwreck, as well as other artifacts like human teeth. The ship carrying the mysterious Antikythera ...

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 two researchers published a paper advancing our understanding of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek mechanism that modeled the known universe of 2,000 years ago.