It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may ...

Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient Greek artefact found in a shipwreck ... On the back were two further dials displaying information about lunar cycles and eclipses. The calculator would have been ...

Found in a Greek shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism shocked researchers ... and even Olympic Games cycles. It shaped celestial systems with precision and even accounted for the Moon ...

What is the Antikythera Mechanism’s actual purpose, if it’s non-functional as a computer? The study appears to demonstrate that this ancient device could not have been used as a rudimentary computer ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer that is believed to be used to help teach Greeks about our place in the cosmos. Credit: National Archaeological Museum ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a bronze gear mechanism from ancient Greece that was discovered in a sunken ship near the Mediterranean island of Antikythera in 1901. New research suggests that the ...

Recent research from the National University of Mar del Plata suggests that the ancient Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a functioning device, as computer simulations indicate it could get ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.