Though Iversen and others have researched the device for years, there is still more to learn from it. Supported by $60,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that ...

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project is a joint investigative effort sponsored by the Greek Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the National Archaeological Museum. Funding is from the Leverhulme ...

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar. By Becky Ferreira The Antikythera mechanism, an ingenious ...

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900. Copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project ...

The mysterious Antikythera mechanism—an ancient device believed to have been used for tracking the heavens—has fascinated scientists and the public alike since it was first recovered from a shipwreck ...

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, ...

When Dimitrios Kondos and his crew of sponge divers found the Antikythera shipwreck in 1900, they weren't trying to make history or upend archaeologists' understanding of high technology in the late ...

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A new working model of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator reveals the sophistication and precision of mathematics, astronomy and engineering in the ancient world. A new working model of the ...

Created more than 2,000 years ago, the Antikythera mechanism tracked the movements of celestial bodies. Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Getty Images More than two millennia ago, a device known as the ...