And just like those objects in previous Indiana Jones films, it has additional supernatural properties in The Dial of Destiny. The real Antikythera is considered an early, and analog, computer.

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 ...

The inspiration for the titular device in last year's blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, was an actual archaeological artifact: the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,200-year-old bronze ...

'Antikythera' Built 2000 Years Ago May Be the World’s First Computer — But Scientists Still Can’t Fully Decode It Despite advancements, there are some mysteries that humanity has still been ...

The Antikythera mechanism was built around 2,200 years ago. It was found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. The ship likely sank around 65 B.C.

The Antikythera Mechanism consists of some 82 fragments today, but only roughly a third of the original device is believed to survive. Researchers have known that the device was a calendar for ...

Archaeologists, divers excavating 2,000-year-old Antikythera wreck found pottery, marble fragments and section of ship’s hull, photos show.

A foot-high object of wood and bronze broken into more than 80 fragments, the Antikythera mechanism dates back 2,200 years and was a hand-powered model of the solar system.

A piece of the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century B.C. device recovered from divers in 1901 off a remote Greek island in the Aegean. Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...