Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...

Poor spacing between gear teeth could cause blockages, rendering the mechanism unfit for scientific use, simulations indicate ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an ...

Was the Antikythera Mechanism just a toy? Find out what a recent study by the University of Mar del Plata really shows.

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 ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. © Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via ...

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

NEW research into a mysterious 2,000-year-old relic may have finally revealed its true purpose – and it’s very different to how it’s portrayed in Indiana Jones. Dubbed the ...

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may not have been a cryptic celestial measuring device, but just a toy prone to constant jamming. And the secret to its true purpose, according to new research ...

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