New research adds a twist to the story of this famous device, suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack. The triangular shape of ...

THE mystery deepens around the famous shipwreck that held the 2,000-year-old relic dubbed the “world’s first computer”. The Antikythera wreck sank in the first century BC off the ...

The Antikythera mechanism (205 B.C.E.), in the collection of National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.

The Antikythera mechanism was thought to have been used by the ancient Greeks to calculate the movements of the Sun, Moon, and other planets, as well as eclipses. Only a fragment of it survived ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a remarkable device discovered in an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece, has long been a source of mystery for historians and scientists alike. For decades, ...

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 ...

The Antikythera Mechanism consists of some 82 fragments today, but only roughly a third of the original device is believed to survive. Researchers have known that the device was a calendar for ...

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 ...

Excavations at mysterious Antikythera shipwreck in Greece, which was in the new ‘Indiana Jones,’ revealed bones, marble, pottery and more.

The isolated Greek island of Antikythera, lying at the edge of the Aegean Sea between Crete and the Peloponnese, reminds one ...

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.

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 ...