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

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 ...

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

The so-called Antikythera mechanism, recovered from the wreckage of an ancient cargo ship off the coast of Antikythera Island in Greece, might be the world's oldest analog computer.The mystery ...

A powerful 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Greece on Wednesday, July 23, between two holiday hotspots. The huge tremor hit ...

The simulations revealed that while the triangular shape of the gear teeth did not pose a major problem, poor spacing between the gear teeth could cause rapid and frequent blockages. This would render ...

Pottery from the Antikythera shipwreck's cargo. (Greece's Ministry of Culture and Sports) In 2016, marine archaeologists discovered a 2,100-year-old skeleton at the Antikythera wreck site.

The famed Antikythera shipwreck appears bigger than believed, loaded with antiquities The shipwreck yielded bronze statues and the enigmatic Antikythera mechanism a century ago Ship likely sank ...

The Antikythera mechanism is over 2,000 years old. Who built this device, and why, and how do we know? What's its purpose, and how does it function? And is it really even a computer at all?

The Antikythera Mechanism / Meteoroskopeion was a Pharos / Lighthouse illuminating the science and virtues of Greek civilization. It helped the Greeks to see and enjoy the new world that ...

What is the Antikythera Mechanism? Five things you didn't know about 'the world's first computer' Today's Google Doodle marks the 115th anniversary of the unearthing of a device used by the ...