Ancient Greece's Supercomputer: A True Marvel Posted: April 2, 2025 | Last updated: April 2, 2025 In 1901, sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism off a Greek island. Dated to around ...

isolated island in Greece. Antikythera, like many rural parts of the country, has suffered steady depopulation. When the last national census was held in 2021, it had just 39 people living there.

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination.