The titular "Dial of Destiny" in the new Indiana Jones film is based on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient device used to chart the cosmos.

Who Was Archimedes and Why Do Scientists Believe He Designed the Antikythera? Archimedes, born in the Ancient Greek city of Syracuse, Sicily, lived from 287 to 212 B.C.E.

"We just don't know," says Jones. "Archimedes is one of the Greek world's top mathematical and scientific minds who had a founding role with the gear technology seen (in the Antikythera mechanism).

Honorary professor at University College, London, Tony Freeth talks about his studies on the Antikythera Mechanism, which was just featured in the film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The following piece contains SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Unless you have an Antikythera handy, you ...

In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, they embark on a quest for the missing pieces of the Antikythera Mechanism. They also say it was built by Archimedes during the time of the Battle of ...

The Real-Life Dial of Destiny. In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, it is hurriedly mentioned that the dial was discovered off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea sometime in ...

Only a German philologist, Albert Rehm, 1871-1949, approached the truth when he suggested, in 1907, that the Antikythera computer resembled the mechanical universe of Archimedes, Greek scholar ...

Who Was Archimedes and Why Do Scientists Believe He Designed the Antikythera? Archimedes, born in the Ancient Greek city of Syracuse, Sicily, lived from 287 to 212 B.C.E.

Honorary professor at University College, London, Tony Freeth talks about his studies on the Antikythera Mechanism, which was just featured in the film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.