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The Antikythera Mechanism is the latest relic at the center of an Indiana Jones adventure, but what’s the history behind this ancient astronomical device? Only fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism ...

The Antikythera wreck, whose mysterious hand-powered model of the solar system changed historians’ understanding of ancient technology, has been visited for a final time—for now at least. In 2012, ...

Divers exploring the centuries-old Antikythera wreck retrieved intact pieces of the ship and found artifacts that shed light on life aboard the craft. The Antikythera shipwreck dates back to the first ...

Was the Antikythera Mechanism really used for time travel? Or was it actually the first Analogue Computer... In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, they embark on a quest for the missing pieces of ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...

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 ...

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Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes In 1901, sponge divers ...