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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

The Antikythera mechanism, found in a 1st century B.C. shipwreck, is considered to be the world's oldest analog computer.

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 ...

Researchers previously thought the calendar ring on the Antikythera mechanism tracked the ancient Egyptian calendar, but new research suggests it tracked the Greek lunar calendar instead.

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 Egyptians ...