Recovered from a first-century B.C. shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, a corroded lump of bronze gears has forced ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

The Antikythera mechanism is widely considered to be the world’s first analog computer, but its purpose has puzzled people for more than a century since its discovery in 1901. As reported in The ...

Several millennia ago, a Greek ship sank off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea called Antikythera. It was carrying statues, coins, and one mysterious shoebox-sized object. Watch editors Andrew ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In 2024, scientists from the University of Glasgow leveraged statistical methods like Bayesian analysis—as well as techniques developed to study ...