More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination. Found in a ...

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a celestial measuring device. It was sometimes called the oldest computer in the world ...

The world’s oldest analog computer may be no more than a 2,000-year-old lemon, according to the findings of an as-yet un-peer-reviewed study. Discovered at the site of an ancient shipwreck, the ...

Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of the 21st century's most sensitive pieces of scientific equipment have helped cast new light on the function of the oldest ...

The inspiration for the titular device in last year’s blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, was an actual archaeological artifact: the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,200-year-old bronze ...

Researchers say they’ve used cutting-edge gravitational wave research to shed new light on a nearly 2,000-year-old mystery. In 1901, researchers discovered what’s now known as the Antikythera ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...