Recovered from a first-century B.C. shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, a corroded lump of bronze gears has forced historians to rethink when humans first built machines that could ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Site where oldest computer lay for thousands of years may yield other treasures and even another Antikythera mechanism ...

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, ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

The 2,000 year old Antikythera mechanism is widely celebrated as a triumph of ancient Greek engineering, an analog computer built to track the cosmos. But a new digital simulation reveals a major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes described as the world's oldest computer, on display at the Archaeological Museum in Athens.

The 2,000-year-old Greek mechanical “computer” known as the Antikythera Mechanism continues to inspire both scientists and science fans. The geeks are suggesting the geared device may have inspired ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...