Amid the treasures retrieved, a corroded, bronze-encrusted object eventually revealed itself to be the Antikythera Mechanism—an ancient Greek analog computer of remarkable sophistication.

Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

The Antikythera mechanism, found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in ... has sometimes been called the world's oldest computer. One piece of the mechanism, known as the ...

Decades of further research revealed that the ancient device was a kind of hand-operated mechanical computer built in the ... and the work and care that Greek craftspeople put into making it ...