More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera. It turned out ...

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

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

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

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it ...

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

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its ...

The plane, part of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), crashed off the Greek island of Antikythera, killing Leslie and two comrades. Now, after almost 82 years of uncertainty, divers have brought ...

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The Antikythera mechanism was similar in size ... includes month names used in Corinth and its colonies in northwest Greece. A dial that displayed the timing of major athletic festivals, including ...

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 ...