It was a mechanical marvel, so advanced that it baffled archaeologists and scientists for over a century. A device that would ...

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

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer that is believed to be used to help teach Greeks about our place in the cosmos. Credit: National Archaeological Museum ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But ...

One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer.” But the X-ray images were difficult to interpret, ... it modeled epicycles with trains of small gears riding around larger ones.

An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time. ... The original mechanism involved 37 gear-wheels held together by a complex pin-and-slot system, the researchers report in the Nov. 30 Nature.

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.