It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may have finally solved the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism.

For decades after divers retrieved these scraps from the Antikythera wreck from 1900 to ... There were also two dial systems on the back of the case, each with a pin that followed its own spiral ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in ... “There’s a calendar, there’s an eclipse prediction dial, and there are inscriptions giving you information about what the stars ...

Dubbed the "world’s first computer", the Antikythera Mechanism has baffled boffins for years - even inspired the latest Harrison Ford hit "The Dial of Destiny". A poster for 'Indiana Jones and ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they discovered a 2,000 year-old ...

Now he wants the fabled Archimedes Dial to turn back history and gain a Nazi victory. Not a bad premise. But even Mikkelson can’t bring much of a spark to a tired script that perhaps suffers ...

During his high-octane escape, he not only makes a new enemy in a Nazi physicist (Mikkelsen, naturally), but he also comes across half of Archimedes' dial, an ancient device believed to be able to ...