An ancient Greek hand-powered mechanical device for predicting astronomical events has been recreated, offering a fresh understanding of how it worked.

115 years ago, divers found a hunk of bronze off a Greek island. It changed our understanding of human history.

Explore the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek marvel blending astronomy and technology, and unravel its historical significance and mysteries.

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Further evidence of ancient machining can be observed in the mysterious ‘Antikythira Device,’ an artifact that was found at the site of an a...

Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to predict astronomical events. Cosmos Display at the front of the Antikythera Mechanism, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon and five planets as well as the phase of the Moon and the nodes of the Moon [Credit: ©2020 Tony Freeth] Known to many as the world's first analogue computer, the…

A very loose printable sketch of the two thousand year old, shipwrecked analog computer. It doesn't tell time or anything, but it looks cool. I

the Antikythera Mechanism. This was an ancient Greek computer - yes, computer - likely designed by Archimedes himself for predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies. Later refined and miniaturized over the centuries, fragments of a portable 1st century BCE version of the device were found in the Antikythera shipwreck at the dawn of the 20th century, but only properly understood much more recently thanks to advances in X-Ray and computer imaging. The relationships between the thirty...