The device, which contains bronze gears, has sometimes been called the world's oldest computer. One piece of the mechanism, known as the "calendar ring," was used to track the days of the year ...

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the ...

Recent research from the National University of Mar del Plata suggests that the ancient Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a functioning device, as computer simulations indicate it could get ...

The Antikythera mechanism is the world’s oldest known, hand-operated mechanical computer—and still a bit of an enigma. Archeologists recovered deteriorated fragments of the device from a ...

Historian Evaggelos Vallianatos discussed what is believed to be the world’s oldest computer, the 2000 year old Antikythera Mechanism,… read more Historian Evaggelos Vallianatos discussed what ...

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues ... it the world’s oldest analog computer, if you like.

It was here, in this unlikely setting and quite by accident, that the world's oldest computer was discovered. The Antikythera mechanism, as it has come to be known, is an artifact that seems out ...

Built some time between 200 BC and 60 BC, the Antikythera mechanism is the oldest known computer mechanism in existence. This ancient, geared device for tracking the heavens is in pretty bad shape ...

known as the Antikythera mechanism, that is considered to be the world's oldest known analog computer. The severely corroded hand-powered device is thought to have been used to predict the ...

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an enduring mystery surrounding what it was used for.

Researchers used techniques for studying gravitational waves to analyze the Antikythera mechanism, pictured above. | Credit: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / Stringer via Getty Images ...

The Antikythera mechanism, found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, was created around 2,200 years ago. The device, which contains bronze gears, has sometimes been called ...