The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Turns out, these are no ordinary fragments, but remarkable time relics disintegrated from the body of a crumbling artifact that scientists decoded as the “Antikythera Mechanism,” which a Greek diver ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

According to estimates, the Antikythera mechanism was created about 2,200 years ago, in the 2nd century B.C. "It is the universe of the ancient world seen from a new perspective; we are talking ...

built partly to predict the positions of celestial bodies in the solar system as it was understood in ancient Greece. [Dave] decided to build a wooden version of the Antikythera Mechanism as a ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars ...

An ancient mechanical device found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has become known as the world's first computer. The machine is centuries more advanced than historians thought possible, but its ...

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera ... some kind of intricate mechanism.