Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A picture of the mysterious ...

The precision lathe with the hooks, the bowstring, and vise visible as material is being processed. (Credit: Clickspring) We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution, when ...

Greek artisans built a bronze device around 80 B.C. that could track Olympiad cycles, predict eclipses, and model planetary ...

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination. Found in a ...

The world’s first computer long predates the monster machine of 1945. Like, by several thousand years. If you couldn’t tell by the name alone, the Antikythera Mechanism was a device created by the ...

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

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 ...

Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of the 21st century's most sensitive pieces of scientific equipment have helped cast new light on the function of the oldest ...

Characterized as an ancient analog computer, the object was probably used to predict planetary positions, moon phases, and eclipses. Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) holds the Antikythera in Lucasfilm's ...

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 ...

When an unknown genius sat down more than 2,000 years ago to design and build an astronomical instrument, chances are good that he or she didn’t think that entire academic institutions devoted to ...