The Antikythera mechanism — an ancient shoebox-sized device that was used to track the motions of the sun, moon and planets — followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used by the Egyptians ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

Fresh research about ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered "Antikythera mechanism ...

Scientists are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s first computer, thanks to a new computer-generated reconstruction of the ...

Despite advancements, there are some mysteries that humanity has still been unable to solve. One of them was found at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, stated Popular Mechanics. Despite being found in the ...

Antikythera is a diamond-shaped island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated between Greece's mainland and the island of Crete. It's small, covering just 8 square miles, and the population holds stable ...

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...

In the spring of 1900, sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in a sunken ship in the waters of the tiny island of Antikythera, halfway between Crete and Peloponnesos. The reason why the ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, once hailed as the world’s first computer, is once again at the center of debate among scientists and researchers. A recent study published in “arXiv” sheds new light on ...

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.

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The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...