Amid the treasures retrieved, a corroded, bronze-encrusted object eventually revealed itself to be the Antikythera Mechanism—an ancient Greek analog computer of remarkable sophistication.

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism ... is widely held as the oldest known analog computer. The findings, published recently ...

Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Believed by some to be an ancient Greek "computer", it was thought to track the cycles of the Moon, Sun and planets - and even predict eclipses. But now, new research has brought the enigma back ...

If it’s true, this work could have ramifications for some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, including learning where ...

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

Decades of further research revealed that the ancient device was a kind of hand-operated mechanical computer built in the ... and the work and care that Greek craftspeople put into making it ...