The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...

The rusty bronze fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's oldest computer, are 100 years older than scientists previously thought. This is according to Argentinian researchers who found ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...

In 1901, divers recovered a shoebox-size, gear-filled box from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Ever since, the enigmatic box—known as the Antikythera Mechanism—has ...

Legos are not just for kids' toys: an engineer at Apple has proven they can be used for a technological history lesson. Andrew Carol, an engineer at Apple, recently used his spare time to build the ...

It is a mysterious and ancient artifact that has proved so intriguing it has sparked wild claims of alien involvement and even inspired the plot of Indiana Jones. Now scientists who specialise in ...

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from the ...

Discover how the Antikythera Mechanism, the oldest known computing device, predicts solar eclipses using ancient Greek astronomy. The device ... contained more than 30 bronze gearwheels and was ...

An astronomical instrument built by the Ancient Greeks in the 2nd century BC has turned out to be a complex computer for calculating the relative position of the sun, the moon and the planets.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...