Michael Wright with his reconstruction of a machine Archimedes is said to have built to model the heavens. References Edmunds, M. G. Contemp. Phys. 55 , 263-285 (2014).

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In the film’s 1944-set prologue, Indy (Harrison Ford) captures a train loaded with Nazi plunder, including the titular Dial of Destiny.The movie then jumps ahead to 1969. Indy is set to retire ...

For decades, scholars have been trying to understand the device. Some have theorized that the Greek inventor Archimedes made it, but this is unconfirmed. There are Greek inscriptions on the mechanism.

Scientists have long struggled to solve the puzzle of the gearing system on the front of the so-called Antikythera mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator, perhaps 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.

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.

By building a digital model of the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists may have finally exposed a key function of the ancient device, revealing a design that required some seriously advanced thinking.