Archaeology & History What Exactly Is the Antikythera Mechanism, the Mysterious Ancient Greek Device in the New ‘Indiana Jones’ Movie? Here Are 5 Big Questions, Answered ...

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 mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. ... If it wasn't very accurate, for example, then it might have been a toy or an educational model.

Pieces of an ancient mechanism are back in the news, thanks to the latest movie starring that fictional archaeologist, Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. The so-called “Dial of Destiny” that is ...

The Antikythera mechanism was likely built sometime between 200 BCE and 60 BCE. However, in February 2022, Freeth suggested that the famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes (sometimes ...

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. ... According to this model, ...

In the film’s 1944-set prologue, Indy (Harrison Ford) captures a train loaded with Nazi plunder, including the titular Dial of Destiny.The movie then jumps ahead to 1969. Indy is set to retire ...

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 ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, which the ancient Greeks probably called Tablet or Meteoroskopeion, was the logical outcome of the crowning sciences of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and almost ...

Researchers say they've used cutting-edge gravitational wave research to shed new light on a nearly 2,000-year-old mystery. In 1901, researchers discovered what's now known as the Antikythera ...

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar. By Becky Ferreira The Antikythera mechanism, an ...

The 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that carried the Antikythera Mechanism — a precise mechanical model of the sun, moon and planets — is giving up new treasures, including a marble head ...