The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a freakishly complex machine. It’s a mechanism of bronze cogs and levers used to predict the phases of the sun and moon. It may have even been far more complex — also capable of calculating the ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...

In its November 2023 issue, the Website Grunge assumed that certain science questions “won’t be answered in the next 50 years.” One of those questions was about the Antikythera Mechanism. The writer, ...

The oldest known computer, a scientific conundrum for more than a century, did not yield its secrets easily. Only after the most recent innovations were employed, including a $500,000 imaging system ...

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