More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

In 1900, a team of sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera surfaced with more than they bargained for. Among the ...

More than two thousand years ago, the Greeks created a mechanical device so advanced that it still remains a mystery to ...

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 enduring mystery surrounding what it was used for. Now ...

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 researchers ...

Created more than 2,000 years ago, the Antikythera mechanism tracked the movements of celestial bodies. Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Getty Images More than two millennia ago, a device known as the ...

Scientists believe the find could push the boundaries of DNA analysis. Divers work next to skeletal remains found at an ancient shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, Greece, Sept. 6, 2016. Greek ...

You report on suggestions that the Antikythera mechanism didn’t function. Over the past 70 years or so, a number of distinguished and skilful historians and museum curators have conclusively ...