A diver explores the Antikythera in 2025. Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece One of the main goals of the expedition was to retrieve three outer planks joined to the ship's internal frame.

A fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Photo courtesy of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.

The Antikythera mechanism — an ancient shoebox-sized device that was used to track the motions of the sun, moon and planets — followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used by the ...

The expedition to the Antikythera shipwreck, which is located in the Aegean Sea off of Greece, was announced in a press release published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) on ...

The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901 by sponge divers, pioneers of underwater archaeology, at the bottom of the sea near the Greek island of Antikythera, remained underwater for more than ...

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. According ...

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Scientists believe the find could push the boundaries of DNA analysis. Divers work next to skeletal remains found at an ancient shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, Greece, Sept. 6, 2016 ...