More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

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 ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

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 ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...

Special techniques used to study ripples in the universe may have helped researchers solve an ancient mystery. Statistical modeling methods that were developed to study gravitational waves have been ...

Gravitational wave research has helped scientists learn more about a famous 2,000-year-old mechanical computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, often described as the world’s first computer, was a sophisticated bronze device that modelled the cosmos. Researchers have assumed that pointers were used to ...

Longest IT job ever—but after a century of research, there's been a breakthrough in modeling the first known computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.