Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

The world’s oldest analog computer may be no more than a 2,000-year-old lemon, according to the findings of an as-yet un-peer ...

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900. Copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project ...

Found in a Greek shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism shocked researchers for decades. This device, dating to around 100 BCE, contained over 30 bronze gears and could predict lunar ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...

One team has produced a digital replica of the ship using photogrammetry and LiDAR, allowing researchers to study the wreckage while on land. One observation made of the digital model provided ...