built partly to predict the positions of celestial bodies in the solar system as it was understood in ancient Greece. [Dave] decided to build a wooden version of the Antikythera Mechanism as a ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

As [Chris] over at the Clickspring YouTube channel demonstrates in a recent video, small precision lathes were exceedingly common in the Ancient ... of the Antikythera Mechanism, which [Chris ...

An Ancient Greek Computer In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for ...

Ancient Greece has long held the fascination of both the public and archaeologists, and for good reason. These incredible ...

Julio Saucedo Morales explained the differences between the Antikythera mechanism ... correspond to the Greek lunar calendar instead of the 365-day solar calendar of the ancient Egyptians, which ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera ... techniques by the Greeks. This deduction also leads to the possibility of the mechanism being somewhat ...

An ancient mechanical device found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has become known as the world's first computer. The machine is centuries more advanced than historians thought possible, but its ...

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera ... behind the amazing ancient Greek computer.