Engineers and mathematicians have attempted to reconstruct the assembly of cogs, wheels and levers, and still cannot understand the complexity of the Antikythera Mechanism THE remains of a ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...

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 Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Throughout history, there have been intriguing references in ancient texts to devices and mechanisms that bear a striking resemblance to modern computers. These descriptions, while often shrouded in ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...