A new simulation study finds that the Antikythera Mechanism, the celebrated ancient Greek device often called the world’s first analog computer, would have frequently seized up or fallen out of sync ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began ...

Antikythera is a diamond-shaped island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated between Greece's mainland and the island of Crete. It's small, covering just 8 square miles, and the population holds stable ...

Characterized as an ancient analog computer, the object was probably used to predict planetary positions, moon phases, and eclipses. Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) holds the Antikythera in Lucasfilm's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers used techniques for studying gravitational waves to analyze the Antikythera mechanism, pictured above. | Credit: ...

If you ask someone who invented the computer they might say Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. They would, of course, be wrong. Perhaps they might mention Alan Turing (who proposed a “Universal Computing ...

When you look at the mechanisms of antiquity, it’s hard not to wonder, “How did they ever do that?” Just a look around our own shops shows how many things are bought from suppliers that benefit from ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes called the "world's oldest computer," is even older than previously thought, according to researchers. The remarkable astronomical mechanism was discovered in 1901 ...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but researchers have finally unlocked an understanding of an ancient mechanical work that has been arrested for about 2,000 years. Discovered more than a ...