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

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

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

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant jamming. And the secret to its true purpose, according to new research ...

It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared device discovered off the coast of the Greece in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog ...

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination.

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

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its triangle-shaped teeth may finally reveal its intended purpose.

such as those used in the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism, which [Chris] has been rebuilding for the past years, using only period-correct tools. He’s learned a lot about the mechanism ...

It wasn’t until 2006 that the Antikythera mechanism captured broader attention. That year, Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University in Wales and his team published CT scans of the fragments ...