New research adds a twist to the story of this famous device, suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack.

The Antikythera mechanism is on view at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Marcus Cyron via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 You turned the handle on the side to move the gear wheels ...

A deep X-ray tomography scan in 2006 proved groundbreaking. It revealed the previously unknown insides of the mechanism showing it was composed of rotating concentric rings driven by a gear train.

The Antikythera mechanism is not only real but a "mind-blowing" artifact, says research engineer Tom Malzbender. Working for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 2005, Malzbender conducted high-tech ...

The Antikythera mechanism is over 2,000 years old. ... additional research led to a detailed working model that included the likely functions of the mechanism's still-missing pieces.

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant jamming. And the secret to its true purpose, according to new research ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, often called the world's oldest computer, is a 2,000-year-old artifact discovered in 1901 in a submerged shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.

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.